Cloud Engineer

As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our mission to deliver secure, automated, and highly available cloud infrastructure for our DoD customers. Working within a highly functional agile development team, you'll automate service deployments, optimize system performance, integrate with enterprise authentication services, strengthen system monitoring, and uphold established security protocols - driving our commitment to cloud modernization and cyber resilience.

Here, your work is more than a job - it's a journey in innovation. With opportunities to work on high-impact projects, access to the latest technologies, and a culture that thrives on creativity and collaboration, INflow Federal is where your expertise can truly make a difference.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with the 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 systems in an AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS
• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Deliver a full-stack web application to production; identify and resolve operational issues
• Actively participate in the technical requirements-gathering process (i.e., meetings with customers)
• Execute design and implementation of application features independently, with minimal oversight
• Refactor legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability
• Mentor junior developers
• Write and read unit tests; apply code-quality analysis concepts
• Write and debug JavaScript, TypeScript, or a closely related language
• Develop applications backed by a relational database; apply relational database design concepts
• Provide technical support to customers and participate in scrums and other agile team meetings

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of IT 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
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements, including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Experience automating tasks using scripting 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
• Experience 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 and implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes

Desired Skills:

• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS CLI
• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, or Java)
• Experience with the Go programming language
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
• Database experience with a Postgres backend
• Strong communication skills
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification