CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER (TS/SCI CLEARANCE REQUIRED)

NorthHill Technology Resources LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthHill Technology Resources is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA. An active TS/SCI Clearance is required, with sponsorship for CI Polygraph within the first year.

You will automate deployments, optimize performance, and integrate with authentication services within an agile environment. The role emphasizes system monitoring, security compliance, and mentoring junior developers while supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Maintain security requirements for operation of systems with A&A Team.
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (autoscaling, new services, cost optimization, authentication, search).
• Produce detailed documentation for systems and processes.
• Maintain AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS.
• Automate and optimize service deployments.
• Deliver full-stack web applications to production; identify and resolve operational issues.
• Participate in technical requirements gathering with customers.
• Design/implement application features with minimal oversight.
• Refactor legacy code for reliability and maintainability.
• Mentor junior developers; write/read unit tests; perform code-quality analysis.
• Develop applications backed by relational databases; understand RDB concepts.

Skills

AWS

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

TypeScript/JavaScript

Angular

Microservices

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab/Jenkins

Postgres

Go/Python/Java

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

8+ years IT experience

DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements (Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, CCNA)

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Nexus

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER (TS/SCI CLEARANCE REQUIRED)

• Springfield, VA
• Information Technology

NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for aCloud Operations Engineerto support a Federal Program inSpringfield, VA.This is a direct-hire role with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator.An active TS/SCI Clearance is required, will sponsor for CI Polygraph within first year.

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
• Produce detailed documentation
• Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS
• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same
• Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers)
• Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight
• Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability
• Mentoring junior developers
• Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts
• Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language
• Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 8+ years IT experience
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Strong Troubleshooting skills
• Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
• Extensive Typescript or Javascript background
• Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design
• Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs
• Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment
• CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab
• Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker
• Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes

Desired Skills:

• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
• Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java)
• Experience with Go programming language
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
• Database experience with a Postgres backend
• Strong communication skills

Desired Certifications:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner