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Leidos · 1 day ago

Senior DEVOPS/Cloud Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$131K/yr - $237K/yr

10+ years exp

Leidos is hiring an energetic, motivated, innovative individual to be a part of our team supporting Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, MD. The Cloud Engineer works closely with the Program team to manage, maintain, modernize and optimize application’s performance, durability, and cost to best support CMS and the general public.

ComputerGovernmentInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Build and maintain products focused on application development lifecycle automation across multiple cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Apply best practices and best of breed services within and across multiple CSPs to provide parity and cohesive integration within the customer’s hybrid cloud enterprise

Work with the cloud, security, testing, and application teams to build orchestration pipelines

Build, support, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that conduct multiple deployments a day

Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by establishing and participating in feedback loops

Meet with applications on a regular cadence to provide support and identify opportunities for optimization

Serve as a main point of contact for all technical needs and become the subject matter expert of the applications the team manages

Become a subject matter expert with CMS Hybrid Cloud and CMS Enterprise Shared Service offerings

Develop strong relationships and partnerships with the other CMS Hybrid Cloud Product Teams

Continuously refresh infrastructure components such as EC2 instances, Cloud Formation Stacks, Kubernetes clusters, containers, etc

Promote strong quality control practices for all managed services as well as maintain robust documentation

Work independently to resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation

Qualification

Cloud technologiesCI/CD pipelinesContainer orchestrationInfrastructure as CodeCloud security toolsAWS best practicesAzure best practicesGCP best practicesConfiguration ManagementCommunicationTeam playerAdaptabilityConflict managementSelf-starter

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 12+ years of general experience. With a Master's degree, 10+ years of experience is required. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree

Knowledge of cloud-based security tools, best practices and policies including demonstrated experience protecting all layers of the application stack

Knowledge of the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC)

Experience in cloud technologies, cloud services, IaC, cloud storage, cloud networking and cloud security

Package Management tools: rpm, pip, dnf, yum

Experience with container build and orchestration: Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, AKS, Docker

Operatizing System Setup and Best practices: RHEL, AL2, AL23, Windows

Build Tools: Jenkins, GitHub

Experience with CI/CD Tools: Sonarqube, Snyk

Dependency Management tools: Maven

Configuration Management tools: Ansible, Terraform, Git

Experience with Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings

Experience working with FISMA compliant systems

Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure config best practices

Experience with CloudWatch logs and Metrics

Experience with AWS/Azure CLI, shell languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell), and formal programming languages (e.g., Python, Golang, Rust)

Experience with containers (Docker, ECS, EKS, AKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware/Hyper-V, KVM) architectures

Experience bootstrapping and automating the build of complete environments

Efficient communication, zero handoff mentality, accountability and integrity as core

Excellent writing and verbal communication skills

Ability to manage conflict effectively

Ability to adapt and be productive in a fast-paced dynamic environment

Excellent communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations

Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player

Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior to be considered