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Eliassen Group · 2 days ago

Cloud Engineer

DC-Baltimore Area

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Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including Azure and AWS specific tasks.

Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

Supporting and completing requests for operational support within cloud environments.

Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments.

Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture.

Qualification

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Required

5 years experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud

Demonstrated understanding of principals supporting infrastructure components including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years total hands-on experience in technology

Demonstrated understanding of principals configurating and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud

Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads

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 to include communicating level of effort and status to cloud leadership team

Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting out 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 agency AWS/Azure environment

Preferred

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 principals

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 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

Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust