Senior Cloud Systems Engineer

SAIC; Illinois; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. The role involves supporting IT Service Management and modernizing cloud solutions with a focus on security, scalability, and efficiency. Candidates should have extensive experience, preferably with cloud architectures and security policies, and must hold relevant certifications. This is a critical role within the USTC Managed IT Services contract, requiring strategic thinking and leadership.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in relevant IT roles.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance required.
• IAT Level III certifications like CASP+ CE, CISSP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and developing cloud architectures.
• Planning and managing migration to complex cloud environments.
• Ensuring compliance with DoD Cloud Computing policies.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Networking

Security policy

Linux administration

Problem-solving

Education

BA/BS

MA/MS

Tools

AWS

Azure

Git

Jenkins

Palo Alto

Job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team 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.

The work schedule for this position follows standard business hours from Monday to Friday. However, the employee may need to offer support outside of these hours, including after-hours and weekends, during planned or emergency events.

Role Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership and 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 environments enabling managed shared services.
• 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-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling
• 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).
• Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BSand Ten (10) years or more experience.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance.
• IAT Level III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH).
• 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 Azure.
• Previous work experience as a cloud architect, designing and deploying cloud solutions.
• Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.
• Expertise in next generation firewall (Palo Alto) deployment, configuration and management.
• In-depth understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs.
• Understanding of layer three routing protocols, emphasis on BGP.
• Experience troubleshooting end to end connectivity issues within DOD networking infrastructure.
• Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git, Jenkins, Groovy, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.).
• General knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM.
• Exposure to AWS Workspaces or experience deploying VDI solutions to AWS Cloud.
• Experience with Route 53 deployment and management within AWS GovCloud environment.
• Experience with Zero trust architectures.
• Administration of multiple networking devices, i.e. firewalls, F5 with networking configuration management tools such as Panorama, Big IQ, etc..
• Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members.
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies.

Desired Qualifications:

• MA/MS.
• 15 or more years of experience.
• DoD TS/SCI clearance.
• AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification.
• ITIL V4 Foundations Certification.
• Experience with F5 Big-IP devices specifically the LTM and ASM modules.
• Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway.
• Experience with Palo Alto FWs specifically managing security policy, NAT policy, and BGP routing.
• Experience with Juniper and Cisco virtual cloud routers.
• Experience with BGP routing in a DoD environment.
• Familiarity with AWS Site-to-Site Connections.
• Experience with Azure commercial cloud services.
• Knowledge of Route53 DNS.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.