Clearance Required:TS/SCI

Minimum Years' Experience:

Overall Assignment Description:

Junior-Level Cloud Engineers support implementation approaches and plans to ensure optimum cloud performance and reliability across the servers, networks, and related utilities and hardware that comprise the cloud infrastructure. They conduct analysis and make reliable engineering recommendations to ensure six sigma reliability/resiliency of the cloud infrastructure. They monitor and report on cloud utilization and plan continuous process improvement.

Duties include:

Supports applying a systematic, engineering approach to the design, architecting, requirements. elicitation, development, operation and use of cloud technologies and platforms for mission solutions.
Leverages software-, platform- and infrastructure- as-a-service to deliver GEOINT solutions.
Ensures optimum efficiencies for the utilization of cloud services.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Junior level work experience as a Cloud Engineer.
Junior-level working experience in government or industry supporting or leading cloud-based systems engineering efforts.

Desired:

One or more Cloud Certifications
AWS Certified
Cisco Certified Networking Administrator – Cloud
Cisco Certified Network Professional – Cloud
IBM Certified Cloud Solution Architect
MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
VMware Certified Professional (VCP7-CMA)
Citrix XenApp expertise or certification
Experience in Scripting/automation via PowerShell, VBscript, AutoIT or the like
SAN storage infrastructure experience (EMC in particular)
Microsoft Clustering experience
Microsoft SQL experience (installation, configuration, troubleshooting experience)