Cloud Engineer

General Responsibilities:

• SME Responsibilities to transition existing on-premises infrastructure to a cloud architecture
• Current Infrastructure could include, but not limited to, physical/virtual servers, workstations, storage, networks, encryption technologies, software, databases, and other unique program of record services
• Perform analysis of current infrastructure and business processes
• Work with current and identify future customers to ensure their mission needs will be met with minimal impact during transition
• Focus on integrating the services defined in the MCIEE Blueprint
• Migrate or re-engineer database design per requirements of analyst tools
• Experience with installing, configuring, operating, and monitoring CI/CD pipeline tools
• Other duties as required 

Mandatory Skills Requirements:

• This position requires an active DoD TS/SCI Clearance (may require obtaining a polygraph)
• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (Security CE or equivalent)
• Amazon Web Services Cloud certification is required
• Hands-on cloud architect/SME capable of entire lifecycle transition to cloud technology
• Must be capable of performing analysis of current business processes and services provided
• Knowledge of available cloud services to make informed decisions on SaaS, PaaS, DaaS, and Self-Hosted, or hybrid approach
• Recommend best practice approach of transition to cloud technologies or hybrid approach
• Develop transition plan that keeps current stakeholders informed during the process
• Design, Implement, and Automate environment creation
• Document procedures, plans, testing, diagrams, maintenance, training, SLAs/OLAs
• Must be capable of training peers with administration/migration processes
• Must be capable of training customers of new processes/procedures resulting from cloud transition
• Must be capable of scripting technologies such as python, bash, pwershell, and how to automate creation of cloud environment
• Familiar with implementing High Availability (HA) architecture, maximizing service uptime
• Must be familiar with environment auto scaling and load balancing
• Must be familiar with DoD Cyber processes to include STIGs
• Must be familiar with transition of multiple OS technologies to include Windows and RedHat Linux servers and workstations
• Must be familiar with backup and recovery/DR solutions and processes and recommend as required
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well independently and in a collaborative team environment 

Other Skills Preferred:

• Familiar with Marine Corps processes, procedures, and interoperability requirements
• Familiar with similar transitions and can inform lessons learned as needed
• Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) development may be necessary
• Familiar with C2S, S-C2S, AWS, Azure\MSO365 and Marine Corps Private Cloud technologies and dependencies
• Familiarity with the MCISRE and Blueprint services
• Familiar with ESRI Enterprise service architectures and geodatabase systems, specifically ArcGIS Portal
• Familiarity with FEDRAMP, NIST, RMF, and other process standards
• Experience with manual and automated security administration, remediation, and hardening (STIG reviews, group policy and permissions, system modifications based on vulnerability scans, audits, and mitigations; patch management)
• Experience implementing and supporting enterprise system monitoring tools MS Active Directory administration to include, but not limited to, Group Policy, Account Management, Domain Controllers, etc.
• Experience with tools such as git, gitlab, sonarqube, terraform, ansible, and jenkins