RQ180977 - Cloud Engineer - Security Clearance Required

Transform technology into opportunity as a Cloud Engineer with NDSI. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most.

At NDSI you'll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

At NDSI, people are our differentiator. As a Cloud Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS / SCI cleared Cloud Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA.

HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments;
• optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing / improving system monitoring;

maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities :

• Maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies / authentication / search, etc)
• Produce detailed documentation
• Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS, and IAM
• Manage and Maintain AWS WorkSpaces
• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same
• Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers)
• Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight
• Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts
• Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language
• Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED :

Education / Experience :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work / military experience
• 5+ years IT experience
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following : Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA

Required Skills :

• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Strong Troubleshooting skills at the Tier 1-3 level
• Angular frontend framework; UI / UX design
• Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS / FOSS software REST APIs
• CI / CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab
• Strong Knowledge of Active Directory
• Windows / Linux / Ubuntu / CentOS Administration experience
• Desktop support
• Domain / System Administrator experience
• Be a team collaborator
• Have or able to receive a TS / SCI with CI Poly

Desired Skills :

• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS / CLI
• Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java)
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
• Database experience with a Postgres backend
• Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools : GitLab, GitLab Pages, and Nexus
• Knowledge of Confluence and Jira
• Familiarity with Agile / Scrum methodology
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills

Desired Certifications :

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Agile / SAFe

Location : On Company Site

US Citizenship Required