We have an outstanding Contract to Hire position for a Cloud Engineer to join a leading Company located in the Washington, DC surrounding area.
Pay Rate: $52.41
**US Citizenship is required.**
**Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.**
As a Cloud engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and be a team player.
Responsibilities:
- Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including
- Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
- AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53
- Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line
- Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies - preferred skills are CloudFormation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with PowerShell and Python
- Supporting and completing requests for operational support, including communicating the level of effort and status to the cloud leadership team
- Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting on the status of resources
- Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
- Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within the agency's AWS/Azure environment
Basic Hiring Criteria:
- Minimum 5 years of experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud
- Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting infrastructure components, including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years of total hands-on experience in technology
- Demonstrated understanding of principles configuring and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud
Desired Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
- Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, compute, and storage principles
- Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume
- Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including the use of remote APIs
- Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher
Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.