Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Overview

By Light Professional IT Services LLC (By Light) is an ISO 9001:2015, 20000-1, and 27001 registered business that provides a full range of hardware and software engineering services to defense, civilian, and commercial customers worldwide. Driven by a management team that leverages real-world expertise from the defense, intelligence, federal healthcare, and commercial sectors, we provide reliable, efficient, and cost-effective IT solutions to each customer, every time.

Founded in 2002 by industry professionals with extensive knowledge in the Department of Defense and experience in the civilian arenas, we have the unique advantage of meeting customer requirements by integrating best commercial practices with critical real-world expertise to design innovative solutions that bridge the gap between legacy and emerging technologies.

About You: A hardworking, competitive type with that is driven to succeed with a natural sense of urgency. You are a self-starter with a reputation for being an effective team player, who proactively looks to improve and add efficiency to current processes. You exercise judgment in the decision-making process in order to provide consistent customer service. You are highly proficient in problem solving and are able to follow a systematic troubleshooting approach.

Responsibilities

• Experience working with Terraform as it relates to the automation of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and MS Azure cloud deployments.
• Work with technology teams to prototype and prove the viability of solutions.
• Participate in daily operations and maintenance tasks to include patching, troubleshooting, and configuration management.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Architect and implement solutions using AWS services such as EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, RDS, and others.
• Design and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation etc.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing using tools like AWS CodePipeline or Jenkins.
• Design and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
• Optimize AWS resources to minimize costs while maximizing performance and scalability.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and technical skills.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to troubleshoot issues and ensure smooth operations.
• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS. Automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications on EKS.

Required Experience/Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related discipline, MS degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10 years of overall IT experience
• Experience with successful deployment on at least one major IaaS and/or PaaS service platform (OpenStack, AWS, Heroku, etc.)
• Experience with migration of enterprise database systems such as Oracle, Sybase to IaaS and/or PaaS service platform.
• Proven experience with DevOps practices and technologies in a software-defined infrastructure environment, delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience in architecting build and configuration management processes and procedures within both a Hybrid Cloud and Cloud deployment.
• Experience architecting solutions for large programs around cloud architecture to include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-Service (SaaS) solutions.
• Extensive understanding of and experience with Data Center/Midrange Hosting management products and services

Preferred Experience/Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate/Professional preferred
• Preferred a minimum of 5 years hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services
• Nice to have hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform

Special Requirements/Security Clearance

• Ability to successfully obtain a Public Trust