Cloud Engineer, Cloud Ops | TS/SCI - Blackspoke

Springfield, VA

About the Job

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation's safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats. Be part of an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the nation's most critical intelligence organizations. Your work directly impacts national security and global issues, you will have the chance to contribute to missions that are of paramount importance to the United States and its allies, know that that the environments and programs you support are making a difference on a global scale. Our customers operate at the forefront of technology, dealing with some of the most advanced defense, geospatial, and intelligence systems in the world.

What you will be working on (Job Description):

As a Cloud Engineer, you will be supporting the Cloud Ops & Patching Team as an experience technical resource that can adapt quickly to service demands and provide immediate value to the mission. You will be joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Architect, build, and maintain Hadoop and other cloud infrastructure.
Apply Configuration Management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
Develop and direct the creation of content for a complex and growing infrastructure, including Dashboards, Active Channels, Reports, Rules, Filters, Trends, and Active Lists.
Provide guidance to security analysts and network engineering staff.
Work closely with C&A Teams to maintain security requirements for system operations.
Support all aspects of NCE's Security Information and Event Management initiative.
Enhance and improve an integrated set of correlation rules, alerts, searches, reports, and responses.
Coordinate and conduct event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring activities for the system.
Perform routine equipment checks and preventative maintenance.
Perform systems hardening to DoD standards.
Maintain up-to-date documentation of designs/configurations.
Create shell and Perl scripts to facilitate automated tasks.
Work with other Service Providers to support areas of common interest.
Collaborate with software and hardware vendors.

Experience with the following:

Public clouds such as AWS, Google, Rackspace.
Private clouds such as VMware, OpenStack.
Experience working with Hadoop in a Cloud Environment
Working as a system architect, administrator, or operator in a production environment.
Knowledge of IAAS, PAAS, and/or SAAS cloud technologies.
Network technologies (e.g., MPLS, routing protocols, forwarding).
Common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.
Hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V.

What you will bring to us (Required Skills):

5+ years of related systems engineering experience.
Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.
Knowledge of the associated hardware, software, and equipment.
Demonstrated ability to use problem-solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues.

Would be nice if you bring the following (Highly Desired):

Strong background in Unix, Solaris, or Windows servers.
Scripting skills (e.g., shell scripting, Perl).

Professional Certifications:

Professional certification in one or more specific technologies may be required, depending on job assignment.

What you will get:

Competitive compensation package.
Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
A collaborative and innovative work environment.

Location: St. Louis, MO / Springfield, VA
US Citizenship Required with Active Security Clearance.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans or veterans with service-connected disabilities, are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance applying outside of the online application, please contact recruiting@blackspoke.com for more information.

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