Cloud Engineer Jr

Grvty; Virginia; On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Work-life balance

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

GRVTY is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support the CORE team in Virginia. The role focuses on distributed and managed services, automating installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services in cloud environments.

You will own and optimize CI/CD pipelines, enhance security controls, and monitor system performance while collaborating in SAFe and Scrum practices. On-call support is required to ensure high availability.

Qualifications

• US Citizen with TS/SCI clearance and CI polygraph eligibility.
• 3+ years of cloud engineering or DevOps experience.
• Experience deploying apps with OpenShift or AWS.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with networking, load balancers, firewalls, and infrastructure design.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments across development, test, and production systems.
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services and security requirements.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure with cost-conscious planning and autoscaling.
• Monitor logs, security events, and system performance; enforce best practices for reliability and hardening.
• Collaborate in SAFe/Scrum ceremonies and provide on-call support as needed.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud operations

GitLab CI/CD

On-call readiness

Security controls

Tools

GitLab

OpenShift

AWS

Job description

In this role, you’ll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers’ operations. As a Cloud Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services.

What You'll be Owning

• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within development, test, and production systems
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On-call support will be required

What You Must Have

• US Citizen with TS/SCI Clearance and ability to obtain a CI Polygraph
• 3+ years of experience
• Willing to learn cross-domain services available at customer agency
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines, typically centered around deploying or updating applications/services in OpenShift or AWS
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevSecOps/Continuous Integration tools
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

What Would be Nice to Have

• Multi-platform integration (connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, Self Service)
• AWS serverless infrastructure components
• Background as a system administrator
• AWS Diode
• Security+ Certification
• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing
• Experience using Jira and Confluence
• Strong written and oral communication

Pay Range:At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors—such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.We’re proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.

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