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)