Cloud Systems Engineer

Unclassified - Chantilly, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Chantilly, VA

About the position

NS2 Mission is seeking a motivated Cloud Systems Engineer to support our team in the Northern VA area. The ideal candidate will excel at designing, building, and deploying highly scalable, resilient, performant services in an integrated team to continually improve DevOps posture as well as providing maintenance of a software solution built using Amazon Web Services and both custom and commercial software. Responsibilities will include working with the development team to keep the various environments (dev, test, and prod) up to date with security and maintenance updates, monitoring the environments for issues, providing design suggestions for the environments, and supporting the automated deployments into the environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy highly scalable and resilient services.
• Maintain software solutions built using Amazon Web Services.
• Work with the development team to keep environments updated with security and maintenance updates.
• Monitor environments for issues and provide design suggestions.
• Support automated deployments into various environments.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
• Experience and in-depth knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, and security services.
• Experience with Linux systems administration.
• Experience in an Agile development environment using Jira or other work tracking software.
• Experience remediating issues found from security vulnerability scans.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated experience in continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Puppet, Packer).
• Demonstrated experience with relational, noSQL and/or file-based storage (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, Oracle).
• Amazon certifications.
• Experience working in an Agile scrum teamwork environment.

Benefits

• Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
• Drug-free workplace policy
• Pre-employment substance abuse testing where required by contract.