Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer

Position 20b: Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer (Senior-Level)

Overall Assignment Description:

The Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer will work across Cloud Ops, Security, Development, Auditing teams at NGA to design resilient, flexible, and scalable cloud solutions to support GEOINT Enterprise operations.

Duties may include:

· Formulate, document, and communicate methodologies for building and operating highly available, scalable services.

· Provide assistance in reducing and resolving production incidents (e.g. Site Reliability Engineering).

· Look for opportunities to improve all operations processes.

· Evaluate, build and modify automation for deploying and operating production services.

· Create, assess, update and maintain documentation pertaining to Product Lines.

· Develop and design elastic, resilient and self-healing Cloud native applications and workflows.

· Crafting excellent documentation for respective projects and carrying ownership for the code and the instructional tutorials of how to use it.

· Work with team members to design, architect and implement solutions across geographic locations.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

· Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

· Five or more years of experience with cloud-based services or technologies.

· Understanding of object-oriented software with languages like Java, C , Python or Ruby ideally in SOA applications.

· Understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks).

· Understanding of industry standards for designing and implementing IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Cloud environments.

· Experience with modern container orchestration systems, such as: Kubernetes, Mesos, DC/OS, Swarm.

Desired:

· Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

· Certified AWS Solutions Architect

· Two or more years of demonstrated experience in Site Reliability Engineering functions.

· Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and the best practices for deploying applications to those stacks.

· Experience designing, implementing, and operating in a DevSecOps.

· Experience using APIs and RESTful services.

· Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Fabric.

· Experience with security in the cloud, such as: Intrusion, penetration, and vulnerability scanning.

· Experience with monitoring solutions, such as: ELK, Splunk, SUMO, Nagios, Prometheus.

· Experience with build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem capabilities, such as: Git, Gerrit, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Nexus.