Cloud Engineer – Hybrid Cloud & OpenStack (TS)

Huntington Ingalls Industries; Fort Washington (MD); On-site; USD 78,655 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

HII – Mission Technologies seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure in support of mission requirements and modernization initiatives. You will evaluate OpenStack distributions, automate infrastructure, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize hybrid cloud environments and secure operations.

The role emphasizes automating pipelines, implementing monitoring, and maturing a service-oriented hybrid IT ecosystem across Azure, AWS, and OpenStack

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with OpenStack deployment, configuration, and evaluation.
• Strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud technologies, including automation tools and cloud-service architectures.
• Proficiency with scripting or programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Analyze technical and management cloud-infrastructure needs of TDLs and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Participate in the selection and deployment of OpenStack distributions based on performance, SLAs, support, and cost considerations.
• Design, develop, and implement private cloud infrastructure and ensure full integration with hybrid cloud platform management layers, identity management, and R&D infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with other engineering teams to support cloud architecture, automation, and service delivery.
• Support modernization initiatives to evolve infrastructure into a fully automated, service-oriented hybrid IT environment.
• Automate build pipelines, migrations, security, and compliance operations within cloud environments.
• Manage TCP/IP networking for both cloud and on-premise environments.
• Use Azure and AWS automation tools and script or program cloud-infrastructure workflows.
• Define, implement, and manage cloud-based infrastructure while performing administrative tasks and application support for cloud platforms.
• Review cloud-infrastructure security, apply patches, create console roles, and install required security packs.
• Implement enterprise monitoring technologies such as OMS, SCOM, Azure monitoring tools.
• Develop dashboards, monitoring solutions, alerts, and escalation workflows to support operational awareness.
• Document cloud configurations, system workflows, and procedures while transferring knowledge to development teams.
• Identify opportunities for automation and develop scalable, cloud-native solutions to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Work closely with business-technology partners and leadership to ensure cloud solutions meet operational expectations and stakeholder requirements.

Skills

OpenStack

Azure

AWS

Scripting

Networking

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

OMS

SCOM

PagerDuty

Job description

HII – Mission Technologies seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure in support of mission requirements and modernization initiatives. You will evaluate OpenStack distributions, automate infrastructure, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize hybrid cloud environments and secure operations.

The role emphasizes automating pipelines, implementing monitoring, and maturing a service-oriented hybrid IT ecosystem across Azure, AWS, and OpenStack