Cloud Engineer

ClientSolv Technologies is an IT solution firm with over a decade of experience serving Fortune 1000 companies, public sector and small to medium sized companies. ClientSolv Technologies is a woman-owned and operated company that is certified as a WMBE, 8a firm by the Federal government's Small Business Administration.

We are seeking a Cloud Engineer for a contract-to-hire opportunity in Westminster, CO.  In this role, you will be part of a team that works on AWS/Azure engineering and deployment efforts. This position is a hands-on role that requires exceptional design, implementation, and migration planning and execution skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential for this position as the Engineer will work with a variety of IT Subject Matter experts.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:

Assist with the design and building of reliable, fault tolerant cloud infrastructure
following industry best practices.
Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure
Document cloud infrastructure and policies
Identify automation opportunities and implement using tools such as Ansible,
vRealize, Terraform, cloud formation templates, and other similar tools.
Work with Projects to help them adopt cloud infrastructure and services in order to
reduce cost and deployment times.
Understand on-premise policies, solutions, and technologies and integrate with the
cloud infrastructure where applicable.
Understanding cloud security best practices and work with Security teams to design
and implement a security infrastructure
Serve as a technical point of contract for cloud services and help with
communication of cloud services to projects
 

3 years of solid AWS experience
5-7 years of overall IT experience
5 years of scripting/automation experience
Working knowledge of service, networking and storage concepts
Understanding of Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Sevices
Experience working in VMWare environment
Linux (Redhat/Centos) experience
Excellent organization and communication skills, both written and verbal
Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with customers, senior-level personnel and
team members
Ability to work well both independently and in teams
Ability to multi-task and to prioritize rapidly-changing task assignments
Experience working in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment
Additional preferred experience:
Use of automation tools such as ansible, puppet, and chef strongly preferred
Experience with vRealize
Experience with Terraform
Git/Github experience
Experience with Federal security best practices
Working knowledge of virtualization technologies and shared infrastructure.
Good scripting skills using shell and/or python.
Experience with load balancers and firewalls
Experience working in an ITIL environment

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science,
Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered in lieu
of degree
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate, Professional (preferred)
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (preferred)

This contract-to-hire role will be located onsite in Westminster, CO.