Cloud Engineer - Journeyman

TJ Consulting Group; Scott Air Force Base (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Holiday Pay

401K with a 4% Match

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Group Life & AD&D

Voluntary Life AD&D

Short-term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account (Health and

Critical Illness Insurance

Accident Insurance

Hospital Indemnity Insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

TJ Consulting Group seeks a Cloud Engineer to support USTRANSCOM at Scott Air Force Base, IL. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and securing cloud architectures that meet DoD policies while enabling scalable, resilient services.

The candidate will drive migration and modernization efforts for IL5/IL6 environments, work with JWCC, and provide guidance on cloud solutions, governance, and client interactions. Strong AWS and Linux skills are required.

Qualifications

• BA/BS required; 4+ years of experience; active DoD Secret clearance.
• AWS Architect certification and DoD cloud experience are highly preferred.
• Proficient in Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and AWS cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Providing hands-on development and implementation of cloud solution architectures with focus on security, scalability, and resiliency.
• Plan, migrate, re-platform, integrate, and operate IL5/IL6 cloud environments for JWCC and on-prem enclaves.
• Ensure CSOs align with DoD cloud policy and guidelines.
• Provide detailed information for hardware/software selection and data migration techniques to meet business needs.
• Develop and conduct testing of cloud and virtualization systems.
• Maintain expertise in cloud computing standards and AWS offerings, including networking and DNS deployment.

Skills

DoD Secret clearance

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

IAT Level II certifications

CE certification

RHEL administration

AWS ECS/EC2/CLI

AWS GovCloud familiarity

Cloud architecture design

Cloud security

Networking (Transit Gateway, VPNs, VPC

Route53 DNS in cloud

CloudFormation templates

Client interaction

Education

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS)

Master's degree (MA/MS)

Job description

Must Possess Clearance: DoD Secret clearance

Location:

Scott Air Force Base (AFB), IL approximately 20 Miles from St. Louis, MO

Potential for Remote Work:

NA

Introduction

Seeking a Cloud Engineer to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command’s infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6). The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.

Responsibilities

• Providing hands‑on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency


• Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud IL5/IL6 environments enabling managed shared services within Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) Environment and/or on premises enclaves.


• Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines


• Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements


• Developing and conducting testing of cloud and virtualization systems


• Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-

• Evaluating and reporting on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud‑based and virtualized services


• May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA)


• Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives

This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS


• Four (4) years or more experience


• Active DoD Secret Clearance


• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification


• Must have at least one of these IAT Level II certifications: Security+, CySA+ **, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP


• Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in AWS.


• Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.


• Experience with AWS ECS/EC2/CLI, & best practices


• Experience designing, building, and managing cloud‑based applications and services using Amazon Web Services (AWS)


• Familiarity and experience with AWS service offerings in AWS GovCloud


• Interacting with clients, providing cloud support, and making recommendations based on client needs


• The AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform


• Familiarity with AWS Networking. Including Transit Gateway, VPNs, and VPC Endpoints


• Experience with deploying DNS in a cloud environment including Route53 and BIND


• Exposure to cloud formation templates, writing, and understanding how to implement

Desired Qualifications

• MA/MS


• 10 or more years of experience


• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional


• ITIL V4 Foundations Certification


• Experience with Zero trust architectures


• Experience with AWS Workspaces or experience deploying VDI solutions to AWS Cloud


• Experience with AWS monitoring and alerting tools, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch


• Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git, Jenkins, Groovy, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.)


• Basic understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, SQL, storage


• Exposure to containerization (ECS,EKS, Fargate)

Benefits

• PTO


• Holiday Pay


• 401K with a 4% Match


• Medical Insurance


• Dental Insurance


• Vision Insurance


• Group Life & AD&D


• Voluntary Life AD&D


• Short-term Disability


• Long-Term Disability


• Health Savings Account


• Flexible Spending Account (Health and Dependent)


• Critical Illness Insurance


• Accident Insurance


• Hospital Indemnity Insurance


• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment. We do not employ AI tools in our decision-making processes. Regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran. ensures that all employment decisions are made in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Our commitment to non-discrimination in employment extends to every location in which our company operates.