Cloud Computing Engineer - Sr. Principal

Job ID: 2403768

Location: REMOTE WORK, MO, US

Date Posted: 2024-03-11

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is seeking a talented, highly motivated, and experienced senior principal cloud engineer for our Cloud Managed Services (CMS)- Service Management Delivery organization. The Cloud Computing Engineer Sr Principal will perform a key function within the SAIC CMS Team related to cloud management and cloud software development. This job can be worked anywhere within the U.S.

The successful candidate's responsibilities will include: 

• Design, deploy, operate, and maintain resilient secure Cloud environments to deliver features in the most efficient way possible.
• Operate and maintain cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (Iac) and SRE principles.
• Maintenance and ongoing development of automation and continuous build/integration/deployment infrastructure for multiple environments; write, build and deploy code and scripts.
• Enable observability and resilience throughout multi-cloud landing zones and Dev/Test/Prod environments.
• Support implementation of security policies, standards, guidelines, and governance.
• Support SAIC’s Customers in CSP (Cloud Service Provider) Account Acquisition, Deployment, and Maintenance.
• Develop new cloud-based tools utilizing best of breed cloud software development tools and methodologies.
• Work directly with SAIC customers and stakeholders to deliver managed cloud applications and services.
• Produce technical documentation and procedures.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen. with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance and/or Secret Security clearance as needed.
• Bachelors degree + 14 years of related experience, additional experience in lieu of Bachelors degree will be considered.
• Self-Organized and works well with minimal supervision.
• Independently troubleshoot complex issues from identification to resolution.
• Proven background working in cloud environments with experience and knowledge in the following areas:
  • Agile methodologies including Scrum or Kanban.
  • Agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence.
  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, Artifactory).
  • CSPs including Azure, AWS, GCP, or OCI.
  • Containerization and container management.
  • Cyber tools - Aviatrix, Orca, Splunk, Amulous, STIG scanner.
  • Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
  • Git, branching strategies, GitFlow and/or GitHub Flow.
  • Cloud high availability and scalability best practices and architectures.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products including but not limited to Word, and Excel.
• Must be able to support East Coast work hours typically 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
• Willingness to check for and work service tickets during non-standard hours and over weekends and potentially holidays. Ability to accept calls from the SAIC CMS Help Desk at any hour if customer submits a Severity A ticket. This is an infrequent event but it does occur.

DESIRED:

• AWS Cloud Practitioner (or higher) Certified.
• DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II or CSSP IS Baseline Certified.

Target salary range: $150,001 - $175,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.