Cloud Engineer

Title- Cloud Engineer Location- Dallas, TX (Remote) Mandatory Skills: AWS Cloud, Teraform IaC, Splunk, XSOAR, Ansible, 24x7 Operations support experience Responsibilities • support engineer for customers, as well as the more junior members of the team • Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments, including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the CSP ecosystem • Technical expertise across multiple technical domains including cloud computing, security, identity and access management and IT infrastructure. • Strong technical knowledge on AWS Infrastructure & security services (EC2, ELB, Guardduty, Config, Inspector, Security Hub, RDS, Route53, S3, vpc, vpn, tgw, cloudwatch, cloudtrail, eventbridge, etc.) • Hands on experience in terraform IaC deployments and ability to implement security automation. • Strong experience working on enterprise security solutions such as WAF, IPS, DDOS, and SIEM. • Good technical experience with products like Splunk enterprise security, Tenable Nessus, PaloAlto firewall, Cortex XSOAR. • Cloud security knowledge in the areas of CSPM, Endpoint security solutions and Vulnerability Management. • Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and processes, and CI/CD systems • Experience with cloud containers and/or Kubernetes security best practices. • Deploy/Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets • Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints • Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls • Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation • Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed • Architecture certification (AWS preferable, Google, Azure) from a major cloud platform. • Information Security Certification is a plus: ISO 27001, CISSP or CISM or other equivalent. • Experience working on FedRamp compliant projects is a plus. • Required Skills & Experience • Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model, supporting external customers. • Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and GCP optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure, Networking, Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform • Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB, GitHub, Jenkins) • Can work autonomously, deliver with minimal supervision from a set of requirements • Prior experience with Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations • Hands on Terraform experience • Possession of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills • Experience working in Federal or State government environments • Ability to function in an agile-based environment and provide good daily feedback on team stand-up call • In depth knowledge of UNIX/Linux and Windows Environment • End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS) • Good written and verbal English communication • Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures) • Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud) • Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred, DataDog, Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.) • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc) • Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)