About the Position:
- Cloud Services Engineer Resource support Clients systems and cloud infrastructure needs. This Resource will be responsible for the daytoday procedures processes and operations of Clients core IT systems in the cloud utilizing a DevSecOps framework.
- This Resource is responsible for creation and updating of procedures and standards to build and manage cloud systems and will serve as the escalation point for highpriority production issues.
- Automation of security configurations manual processes and procedures and provisioning and configuration of cloud resources is required.
- The use of industry DevSecOps best practices and regulatory policies defined by the organization and its partners is required.
- Participates in afterhours standby rotation to handle escalation and communication of Severity 1 production issues.
- Cloud Services Engineer Resource may access Federal Tax Information. Background checks requirements per IRS Publication 1075 apply.
Requirements
The Proposed Candidate must have;
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 6 years overall experience in IT infrastructure (server storage and networking)
- 4 years experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.
Candidates having Formal education in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Cybersecurity or a related field can be substituted for the following years of experience:
Masters Degree : 1 Year
Proposed Expert Level Resource must have demonstrated experience in the following:
- Advanced understanding of networking concepts and services including firewalls load balancers routing DNS DHCP Security and VPNs.
- Advanced understanding of connectivity troubleshooting latency IP addresses ping and trace routes.
Preferred Skills/ Desired Skills:
- Experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift or other containerization platform.
- Experience with Cloudflare or similar Content Distribution Network (CDN).
- Experience with the Nutanix or other virtualization platform.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure As Code DevSecOps concepts and GitHub or similar versioning system(s).
- Experience with Agile processes.
- Experience with administering Red Hat Linux and Microsoft server environments.
- Experience and general understanding of objectoriented coding (Java Python .Net etc.) or scripting.
- Experience as an administrator in a Cloud environment on the Microsoft Azure platform.
- CompTIA Microsoft or other industry recognized certifications in cloud security or servers.
- Experience in the government and/or health care fields with exposure to marketing public relations public affairs or closely allied disciplines.
- ITIL foundations certification.
The Candidate is preferred to have experience with the following Software and Services:
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Commercial cloud
- Azure Government cloudRed Hat Openshift
- Red Hat Linux
- Red Hat Ansible
- Red Hat Fuse
- Red Hat 3Scale
- Microsoft Windows
- Entra ID
- PrismaCloud
- Palo Alto Firewalls
- Palo Alto Panorama
- Terraform
- NGINX
- Jira
- Confluence
- SolarWinds Orion
- Rundeck
- Kubernetes
- Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK)
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Cerberus SFTP
- Azure Data Factory
- Bash
- Python
- PowerShell
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Cisco Switches/Routers
- Datadog
- SumoLogic
Position Requirements: Advanced understanding of networking concepts and services, including firewalls, load balancers, routing, DNS, DHCP, Security, and VPNs. Advanced understanding of connectivity troubleshooting, latency, IP addresses, ping, and trace routes. Experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift or other containerization platform. Experience with Cloudflare or similar Content Distribution Network (CDN). Experience with the Nutanix or other virtualization platform. Familiarity with Infrastructure As Code, DevSecOps concepts, and GitHub, or similar versioning system(s). Experience with Agile processes. Experience with administering Red Hat Linux and Microsoft server environments. Experience and general understanding of object-oriented coding (Java, Python, .Net, etc.) or scripting. Benefits: Holiday Benefit: 10 Holidays per year Vacation Benefit: 10 Vacation Days per year. Accrued on weekly basis. Sick Leave Benefit: 5 Personal/Sick Leaves per year. Accrued on weekly basis Medical Insurance Reimbursement Benefit: Medical Insurance Allowance QSEHRA Reimbursement (Eligibility date dependent on enrollment. Employee purchase own plan) AFLAC Supplemental Insurance Plan: AFLAC Supplemental Insurance Plan 401 (K) Retirement Plan: 401 (K) Retirement Savings Plan Salary Range=$140000 - $145000 with Benefits.