Cloud Engineer

Job Location: Springfield, VA

Compensation: $170,000 - $180,000

Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI clearance

and be willing to obtain a CI Polygraph

Job Description:

- 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:

- Work with A&A Team to 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, and

RDS

- 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

- Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and

maintainability

- Mentoring junior developers

- 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

Skills/Qualifications:

Required:

- Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services

- Strong Troubleshooting skills

- Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as

Bash, PowerShell, or Perl

- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology

- Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous

Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus

- Extensive Typescript or Javascript background

- Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design

- Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS

software REST APIs

- Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment

- CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab

- Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with

Docker

- Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes

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Desired:

- 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)

- Experience with Go programming language

- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development

- Database experience with a Postgres backend

- Strong communication skills

Education:

- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering,

Cybersecurity, or related technical field (or equivalent

experience).

ATR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal

employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment

without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy,

national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation,

gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic

information, or mental or physical disability