Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Senior Cloud Engineer
Charleston, SC
Secret Clearance with Upgrade to TS
As a Senior Cloud Engineer you will plan, design, deploy, and continue to support mission critical projects. You will provide support to the Cloud Services Management Organization. Your technical responsibilities will include the design, deployment, upgrades and support of a multi-vendor enterprise cloud network. As the RHEL administrator, you will perform the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of hardware and software systems.
Position Requirements and Duties
- Supporting, implementing and maintaining all components of systems hosted in Cloud Service Provider (CSP) infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle).
- Troubleshooting and analyzing cloud services, workload distribution, and component sizing within cloud environments to ensure proper performance and cost objectives are met.
- Assist with the implementation and optimization of server monitoring tools to maintain visibility on capacity, security, availability, continuity, and usage/speed metrics that fall outside optimal parameters.
- Deploying and managing cloud environments via infrastructure as code (IaC) utilizing cloud native IaC toolsets/services or multi-cloud capable methods.
- Configuring and maintaining of all cloud native services available.
- Organizing, tracking and managing multiple projects and deadlines
- Utilizing scripting and automation technologies such as Python & PowerShell to simplify and streamline deployment and operations tasks.
- Installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting of RHEL based systems.
- Maintaining STIG compliance of RHEL based systems.
- Knowledge of virtualization concepts as well as industry best practices to include virtualization technologies and management tools.
- Experience with chassis/blade/storage system hardware configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
- System performance benchmarking and analysis in VMware ESXi virtual environments.
- Understanding of essential network services such as DNS, SMTP, NTP, IMAP, and SNMP.
- Day to day support operations maintaining security patches on all RHEL based systems.
- Day to day support operations maintaining the VMware ESXi virtual environment.
- Day to day support operations providing configuration updates to meet user requirements on all RHEL systems and services.
- Planning and scheduling the installation of new or modified hardware and operating systems and applications software.
- Managing accounts and network rights.
- Managing systems resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability, and recoverability.
- Implementing security procedures and tools.
- Developing and documenting systems administration standard operating procedures.
- Resolving significant hardware/software interface and interoperability problems.
- Ensuring systems availability, functionality, integrity, and efficiency.
- Maintaining systems configuration and manage the installation and integration of system fixes, updates, and enhancements.
- Ensuring the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices.
Minimum Qualifications
- US Citizen
- At least 5 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer to include system design, documentation, implementation, testing, operational support, and configuration of cloud services and associated applications.
- At least 5 years of experience with system design, deployment, and management within major Cloud Service Provider (CSP) infrastructure: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud ,or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- At least 5 years of experience deploying and troubleshooting cloud-based Load Balanced services (SSL Certificate Management, DNS).
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with government information assurance standards including DISA STIGs, NIST 800-53, IAVAs management, auditing and accreditation processes.
- Technical writing skills preferred
- Knowledge and experience working with Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), and associated technologies preferred
- Knowledge of virtualization concepts as well as industry best practices to include virtualization technologies and management tools.
- Strong experience with using Red Hat Ansible.
- Experience with using HashiCorp Terraform.
Certifications
DoD 8570 IATII and CSSP Compliant Certifications required
Company Overview
Adapt Forward is a cybersecurity solutions provider for some of the nation’s most valuable information systems. Leveraging advanced threat assessment technology and experience in building high-level information security infrastructure, we develop adaptive solutions uniquely tailored to our customers’ business objectives to protect sensitive data against sophisticated threats in an increasingly complex security environment.
Summary of Benefits
- Comprehensive Physical Wellness Package, including Medical, Dental, Vision Care, plus Flexible Spending Accounts for health- and dependent-care are included in our standard benefits plan.
- 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Contribution is immediately available and vested.
- Annual Training Budget to be used for conference attendance, school enrollment, certification programs, and associated travel expenses.
- Eleven Federal Holidays, plus three weeks of PTO/vacation/sick leave that accrues at a rate of ten hours per month.
- Employee Assistance Program: Counseling/legal assistance and other employee well-being programs are also offered.
Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Adapt Forward’s Veteran/Disability Affirmative Action Plan narrative section is available for inspection upon request during normal business hours at the Human Resources office and may be requested by contacting Human Resources at HR@adaptforward.com.
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