Cloud Platform Engineer (2022-0229)

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language and intelligence services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to join our Infrastructure Technology Division working in McLean, VA. You will provide support on a team that provides a full spectrum of important IT-focused, enterprise-wide lifecycle support, including DevOps, applied technology investigations, operations and maintenance, and infrastructure lifecycle support services across the customer’s enterprise. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with a development team to accomplish established goals
• Work with internal and external teams to understand integration requirements
• Create and maintain documentation for procedures, configurations, and programs
• Serve as a Software/Application Integrator, Implementor, and Tester
• Ensure software and hardware are operating and running efficiently
• Install, configure, and maintain physical virtual servers
• Monitor system health and service performance including troubleshooting and debugging servers through both automated and manual processes
• Develop and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Design, develop, and implement infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools
• Create test automation frameworks in collaboration with team members
• Develop processes to help increase functionality and efficiency of available infrastructure
• Design and code software solutions that help automate manual processes

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, from an accredited institution
• 8 years of relevant experience
• 5-10 years IC Enterprise support and hands on technical / strategic experience) in at least three or more of the following technical areas:
  • Software Engineering (Java), to include DevOps or DevSecOps
  • Infrastructure (Cloud and On-Prem)
  • Business Intelligence / Big Data / Data Science
  • ITSM 
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Azure
• Python framework and Shell scripting
• Linux distributions: RedHat, CentOS
• Experience with one or more Javascript Frameworks (React, Angular, JQuery)
• Serverless and Microservice development
• Container technology
• Demonstrated (non-academic) experience in a similar role (day-to-day management as a contractor supporting a government enterprise IT environment)
• Demonstrated experience defining measurable metrics to monitor progress

COVID-19 Proof of Vaccination Requirements

To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, ATS may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or test on a weekly basis. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action

ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.