Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Clearance Required)

Cloud Engineer Per Federal Govt Contract U.S. Citizenship is Required Active Top Secret Clearance Required Direct Permanent Full Time Hire Hybrid Work Schedule in St Louis/ O'Fallon ALTA IT has a Direct Hire position open for a Cloud Engineer. Clearance: ACTIVE Top Secret Clearance Required and willing to sit for CI Poly • M,W, F – Work from Home • Tuesday – St. Louis, MO Office • Thursday – O’Fallon, IL Office Primary Responsibilities • Collaborates with teams in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (Authority To Operate - ATO). • Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cyber security posture. • Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs. • Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections. • Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance. • Provides broad-based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and applies the experience to specific AWS cloud initiatives relating to architectural design and development. • Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and test. • Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging system outages and ticket support resolution • Advice and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% up-time • Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics including costs, computational utilization and other future business needs • Validates and manages government systems changes; create, run and validate end-to-end testing Basic Qualifications • 5+ years’ experience consulting, designing and implementing distributed solutions and 3+ years’ experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) including virtualization environment, network and operating system experience • Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies • Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies including: EC2, PaaS (OpenShift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc. • Understanding of code baseline management • Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CloudFormation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform • Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices • Windows Domain Administrator of user accounts and group policy objects and Linux administration • Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills. • Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly • Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion and ensure everything has been correctly satisfied to standard. Great attention to detail. • Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. • Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI • Requires BS degree and & 4+ years of prior relevant experience OR, MS with 2+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 6 years of additional experience in lieu of degree • Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.) Preferred Qualifications • Experience with NGA cloud-based architecture • DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3) • NGA Privileged User Account (NPU) • AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certifications • Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies • Native cloud templating services like AWS Cloud Formation • Understanding of SFA organization; Aeronautical data and mission • Experience with Aeronautical datasets • Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and projects • Experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process of evaluating solution options Work Schedule • M,W, F – Work from Home • Tuesday – St. Louis, MO Office and/or NGA 2nd Street. • Thursday – O’Fallon, IL Office • • NOTE: Work schedule is approximate. As needed work location required based on tasking demands. #M2 Ref: #850-Rockville (ALTA IT)