Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Clearance)

Description

Chainbridge Solutions is a dynamic software development company that relies on cloud technologies to deliver high-quality applications.

In support of this objective, we are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our growing team. As a Cloud Engineer, you will work under a team of architects and engineers to support a critical cloud migration program.

Key Responsibilities

• Works with Chainbridge Partner team to support cloud migration efforts for a federal client.
• Manage Chainbridge Solutions’ internal and customer-based application architectures.
• Provision and oversee AWS environments for development teams and customer installations.
• Gather middleware requirements, configurations, and support development of infrastructure as code hosting solutions.
• Perform basic Linux administration tasks including patching, monitoring, starting and stopping services.
• Support software releases for customer sites outside normal business hours, handling all application server changes or actions.
• Offer AWS and Middleware architecture guidance to customers and Chainbridge Solutions team members.
• Migrates a large applications from an on-prem environment to a cloud environment. Communicates with senior leadership on migration status and advises on best practices for managing the application in a cloud environment.
• Works with JIRA, AWS, DevOps, or equivalent technologies to manage application software requirements, user stories, test cases, and test defects.
• Configures and utilizes cloud-native services to provision and manage infrastructure resources such as, but not limited to :
• IaC (Infrastructure as Code), including routine environment standups.
• Terraform, CloudFormation or similar service that allows description and provisioning of all the infrastructure resources used within the GovCloud environment.
• Cloud Monitoring tools such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Watch.
• EC2, EBS (Elastic Block Storage), Auto-scaling, S3 Storage, S3 Glacier Storage, and Simple notification servers or equivalent.

Experience and Skill Requirements

• US Citizen
• Holds current Top Secret Clearance
• 1+ years of cloud engineering experience
• Basic experiencen within and ability to learn the AWS ecosystem
• AWS certifications preferred.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Must be able to work onsite in Washington DC
• Security first mindset with experience with applying security best practices to AWS environments including hardening and patching operating systems.
• Basic experience with infrastructure as code using terraform and / or ansible.

Physical and Mental Requirements :

• Frequently remain in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time looking at a computer screen.
• Continuous verbal and written communication with others to exchange information.
• Continuous repetitive movements that may include the wrists, hands, and / or fingers.
• Comprehension - Must continuously be able to understand direction and adhere to established procedures.
• Organization - Must continuously be able to gather and classify information.
• Reasoning and Decision Making - Must continuously use logic to analyze and interpret information and prioritize.

Entrusted since 2010, Chainbridge Solutions is an award-winning SBA-certified 8(a) and woman-owned small business that specializes in building automated workflow solutions for our federal, state, local and private sector customers.