Cloud Engineer - Expert (Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph) in Tysons, Virginia at QTalent Solutions

Cloud Engineer with Top Secret/SCI Clearance + Full Scope Polygraph
Our client is a leading force in the defense and intelligence sector and is seeking a highly expert Cloud Engineer with Top Secret/SCI clearance with full scope polygraph. This full-time position is based in the heart of Tyson's, VA, offering a unique blend of career excellence and quality living.

WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY?

• Competitive Salary & Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy a top-tier salary, 11% 401(k) matching, full health coverage, and more.
• Generous Leave & Work-Life Balance: With 5 weeks of paid leave, find the perfect work-life harmony.
• Continuous Growth: Benefit from our generous training budget and opportunities for paid certifications and education.
• Employee Referral Bonus: A lucrative referral program that rewards you for expanding our team with top talent.
• Business Development Incentives: Participate in the growth and enjoy the rewards.

ABOUT THIS ROLE:
The selected candidate will work closely with multiple application teams and lead the project teams to integrate the organization’s systems with a new web-based system, replacing the legacy enterprise messaging system, which will reside in their cloud environment. You will also:

• Assist with setup of AI/ML environments.
• Assist with setup access to data in the enterprise messaging system to reduce manual review on responding to questions and automatically extract and tag important data.
• Maintain systems and applications in the Organization’s cloud environment
• Optimize operational efficiency of systems and applications in a cloud environment.
• Work to ensure security compliance within the cloud infrastructure
• Design, develop, and implement cloud-based solutions for optimization
• Maintain cloud-based solutions
• Deploy and debug cloud stacks
• Educate teams on new cloud initiatives.
• Maintain the security of the cloud infrastructure

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide Operations & Maintenance (O&M) support to production systems to include troubleshooting.
• Cloud platform administration such as Amazon Web Services.
• Configuration and infrastructure management of technical components, including hardware, software, and data.
• Developand continuing improvement of automation and procedures scripts.
• Analyze and support cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services.
• Monitor system performance and recommend corrective action.
• Document cloud environment and maintain the documentation.
• Infrastructure-as-code software such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Scripting languages such as Python.
• Linux or Linux Administration.
• Software version control management such as GitHub.
• Application build pipelines such as Jenkins.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS

• Obtaining authentication and accreditation certification for systems with highly sensitive data
• Complying with regulations and policies regarding systems integration with external services (such as access control or auditing), patching and maintaining current versions of software, outage
• Reporting, accessibility requirements, internal-use software reporting, or auditing.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence or SharePoint.
• Excellent customer service.
• Briefing technical topics to a non-technical audience
• Operating within the life cycle management process when implementing changes in technology
• Effectively managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Excelling both independently and as a team member in a lively, collaborative environment and security best practices.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership abilities and experience juggling competing priorities.

CERTIFICATION(S):

• AWS Certification or other relevant Certifications