Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.
Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Nightwing is seeking Multiple levels of Cloud Engineers to assess, design, and develop a cloud-centric, requirements driven, autonomously orchestrated architectures and environments to ensure the rigor, consistency, and continued reliability of mission critical environments. This position is for an individual who fundamentally disagrees with the continued use of repetitive manual operational tasks over automated workflows, while trusting mature, automated resources to deploy any given system over manual deployment more accurately.
Responsibilities include :
- Working with the Chief Cloud Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Working to help define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision
- Leading technical teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
- Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architecture
Required Skills :
Must be a U.S. CitizenMust have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS / SCI clearanceMust be able to obtain DHS SuitabilityAbility to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributorExperience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levelsAbility to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant factsIndependently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills8 + years of professional experience in a technology related field5+ years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous api driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments4+ years of experience in either AWS or MS AzureFamiliarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) products such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and CodeCommitStrong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integrationHands on experience in creating or implementing either api driven workflows, event driven automation, autonomous infrastructure or autonomous software processes and workflowsDesired Skills :
Experience leading teams and projects at either the Project, Team, or Tech Lead levelFamiliarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormationFamiliarity with Identity Management (RHEL Idm, Azure Active Directory)Experience with scripting, Linux packages, and dependenciesFamiliarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and WindowsExperience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositoriesExperience with branching and release strategies, CI / CD Pipelines,Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architecturesExperience in technical oversight of individuals and projectsExperience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNowRequired Education :
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
Desired Certifications :
DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)AWS and Azure Cloud-related certificationsCertified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification desiredSyndeo : 3489
At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You'll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we'll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.
Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.