Cloud Engineer (Junior)

Cloud Engineer (Junior)

Clearance Required: TS/SCI

Minimum Years' Experience:

Overall Assignment Description:

Junior-Level Cloud Engineers support implementation approaches and plans to ensure optimum cloud performance and reliability across the servers, networks, and related utilities and hardware that comprise the cloud infrastructure. They conduct analysis and make reliable engineering recommendations to ensure six sigma reliability/resiliency of the cloud infrastructure. They monitor and report on cloud utilization and plan continuous process improvement.

Duties include:

• Supports applying a systematic, engineering approach to the design, architecting, requirements.
  elicitation, development, operation and use of cloud technologies and platforms for mission
  solutions.
• Leverages software-, platform- and infrastructure- as-a-service to deliver GEOINT solutions.
• Ensures optimum efficiencies for the utilization of cloud services.
  

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management
  Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Junior level work
  experience as a Cloud Engineer.
• Junior-level working experience in government or industry supporting or leading cloud-based
  systems engineering efforts.
  

Desired:

• One or more Cloud Certifications
  o AWS Certified
  o Cisco Certified Networking Administrator – Cloud
  o Cisco Certified Network Professional – Cloud
  o IBM Certified Cloud Solution Architect
  o MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
  o VMware Certified Professional (VCP7-CMA)
• Citrix XenApp expertise or certification
• Experience in Scripting/automation via PowerShell, VBscript, AutoIT or the like
• SAN storage infrastructure experience (EMC in particular)
• Microsoft Clustering experience
• Microsoft SQL experience (installation, configuration, troubleshooting experience)