Job Title : Cloud Engineer - R1012489
Location : Remote
Duration : 25+ Months Contract
Pay Rate : $60 / hr. - $65 / hr. on W2
Industry Background : Comm, Media, & Technology
Custom Skill Requirements :
- Cloud Engineer
- AWS infrastructure
- Terraform IaC
- Linux / Windows
- Splunk
- XSOAR
- Ansible
Screening Questions :
Do you have strong technical hands-on knowledge of AWS infrastructure, Teraform IaC, Linux, Windows, Splunk, XSOAR, Ansible?Do you have experience with cloud containers and / or Kubernetes security best practices?Do you have an architecture certification?Do you have experience working on FedRamp compliant projects?Job Description : Responsibilities :
Support engineer for customers, as well as the more junior members of the team.Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments, including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the CSP ecosystem.Technical expertise across multiple technical domains including cloud computing, security, identity and access management and IT infrastructure.Strong technical knowledge on AWS Infrastructure & security services (EC2, ELB, Guardduty, Config, Inspector, Security Hub, RDS, Route53, S3, vpc, vpn, tgw, cloudwatch, cloudtrail, eventbridge, etc.).Hands on experience in terraform IaC deployments and ability to implement security automation.Strong experience working on enterprise security solutions such as WAF, IPS, DDOS, and SIEM.Good technical experience with products like Splunk enterprise security, Tenable Nessus, Palo Alto firewall, Cortex XSOAR.Cloud security knowledge in the areas of CSPM, Endpoint security solutions and Vulnerability Management.Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and processes, and CI / CD systems.Experience with cloud containers and / or Kubernetes security best practices.Deploy / Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets.Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints.Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls.Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation.Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed.Architecture certification (AWS preferable, Google, Azure) from a major cloud platform.Information Security Certification is a plus : ISO 27001, CISSP or CISM or another equivalent.Experience working on FedRamp compliant projects is a plus.Required Skills & Experience
Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model, supporting external customers.Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and GCP optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure, Networking, Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform.Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB, GitHub, Jenkins).Can work autonomously, deliver with minimal supervision from a set of requirements.Prior experience with Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations.Hands on Terraform experience.Possession of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.Experience working in Federal or State government environments.Ability to function in an agile-based environment and provide good daily feedback on team stand-up call.In depth knowledge of UNIX / Linux and Windows Environment.End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS).Good written and verbal English communication.Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master / slave architectures).Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud).Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred, DataDog, Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.).Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc).Other Open-Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.).