Cloud Application Engineer/Technical Specialist / Contractor - TechDigital
Holmes, FL
About the Job
Basic Job Description:
· Provide services for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and general IT support to enable the Enhanced Ontology Hub in the Product Lifecycle Digital Thread ("PLDT”) initiatives. Participate in planning, definition of best practices, and collaborative meetings in support of these goals.
Job Functions / Responsibilities:
· Define the core infrastructure resources required to enable the Ontology Hub, i.e. compute resources, storage resources, networking resources.
· Co-design and build an effective architecture and environment in collaboration with the members of the PLDT and MBDT PCC teams (Tools & Data Integration, Solution Architecture).
· Support the Digital Thread (DT) Architect and Delivery Lead to engage technology providers and architect cloud-based application system designs (COTS/FOSS) compliant with applicable standards (NIST/DFARS)
· Drive the internal approvals (Legal, ITC, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure) for the infrastructure, applications and services to be deployed and support closure of the remediation actions.
· Deploy commercial software applications, Open Source Software, related IT components and code developed by the PLDT teams into AWS environment in support of the” Ontology Hub.”
· Enable delivery of virtual infrastructure deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code assets (e.g. terraform / shell scripts) and related technologies to enable deployments into multiple environments.
· Drive the use of "best practice” serverless technologies, methods, and tools for engineers within the PLDT teams.
· Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of DevSecOps tools and methodologies.
· Provide general IT support to the PLDT team /Ontology Hub users (Identity Mgmt, Network Access Requests, laptop deployments, etc.)
Qualifications & Skills:
Behavioral:
Demonstrated soft skills required for the presentation of ideas and concepts to stakeholders such as vendors, end users and senior management.
· Excellent verbal, written, communication, presentation and negotiations skills
· Strong customer service approach
· Ability to collaborate and work well with others
· Ability to engage vendor support on technical and functional issues
· Ability to escalate issues properly and in a timely fashion
· Ability to troubleshoot / solve complex problems
· Ability to multi-task, to support multiple customers, and to work within specific schedule and cost constraints
· Ability to effectively interface with technical and nontechnical staff at all organizational levels
· Ability to work and collaborate in virtual environment where team members are not co-located.
· Self-motivated and able to function with minimal oversight
Experience Level
· 5+ years leading technology deployments including infrastructure, system administration, networking and information security aspects
Minimum Mandatory Skills: Cloud Applications
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
DevOps-API-Kubernetes
Test Management-Scrum Master
Desired Skills: ERP, VPC, IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, ECR, ECS, Lambda, AWS Backup, Cloud Watch, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, Cloud Trial, Route53, Event Bridge, KMS, SNS, Ontology Hub bash, Perl, Python and/or Ruby
Experience: Overall 5+ years
· Provide services for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and general IT support to enable the Enhanced Ontology Hub in the Product Lifecycle Digital Thread ("PLDT”) initiatives. Participate in planning, definition of best practices, and collaborative meetings in support of these goals.
Job Functions / Responsibilities:
· Define the core infrastructure resources required to enable the Ontology Hub, i.e. compute resources, storage resources, networking resources.
· Co-design and build an effective architecture and environment in collaboration with the members of the PLDT and MBDT PCC teams (Tools & Data Integration, Solution Architecture).
· Support the Digital Thread (DT) Architect and Delivery Lead to engage technology providers and architect cloud-based application system designs (COTS/FOSS) compliant with applicable standards (NIST/DFARS)
· Drive the internal approvals (Legal, ITC, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure) for the infrastructure, applications and services to be deployed and support closure of the remediation actions.
· Deploy commercial software applications, Open Source Software, related IT components and code developed by the PLDT teams into AWS environment in support of the” Ontology Hub.”
· Enable delivery of virtual infrastructure deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code assets (e.g. terraform / shell scripts) and related technologies to enable deployments into multiple environments.
· Drive the use of "best practice” serverless technologies, methods, and tools for engineers within the PLDT teams.
· Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of DevSecOps tools and methodologies.
· Provide general IT support to the PLDT team /Ontology Hub users (Identity Mgmt, Network Access Requests, laptop deployments, etc.)
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in design, implementation and administration for hardware and systems portfolios
- Experience with infrastructure compute, storage, cyber, and network technologies and resources
- Experience working with systems configuration management, orchestration, and infrastructure as code with tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
- Experience designing and operating highly scalable, secure, high performing systems and platforms
- Experience deploying new cloud native platforms and systems in highly hardened/secure environments.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Technologies, including the use of Infrastructure related AWS Services and related technologies such as VPC, IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, ECR, ECS, Lambda, AWS Backup, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, CloudTrial, Route53, Config, EventBridge, KMS, SNS
- Experience with integration and use of AWS services with custom developed applications, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and open-source software (OSS)
- Advanced skills in Linux administration, configuration, and software installation
- Prior experience in application management and release methodologies
- Prior experience in application controls and compliance
- Experience with GT, Cyber other rules for controls and logging, which are auditable
- Experience of source code management e.g. Git
- Excellent scripting skills in bash, Perl, Python and/or Ruby
- Excellent communicator with the ability to work effectively across multiple business, IT and engineering teams
- Ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and make quick decisions with limited information
- High level of motivation, self-starter, ability to demonstrate effective project management and completion of complex network tasks with little guidance
Behavioral:
Demonstrated soft skills required for the presentation of ideas and concepts to stakeholders such as vendors, end users and senior management.
· Excellent verbal, written, communication, presentation and negotiations skills
· Strong customer service approach
· Ability to collaborate and work well with others
· Ability to engage vendor support on technical and functional issues
· Ability to escalate issues properly and in a timely fashion
· Ability to troubleshoot / solve complex problems
· Ability to multi-task, to support multiple customers, and to work within specific schedule and cost constraints
· Ability to effectively interface with technical and nontechnical staff at all organizational levels
· Ability to work and collaborate in virtual environment where team members are not co-located.
· Self-motivated and able to function with minimal oversight
Experience Level
· 5+ years leading technology deployments including infrastructure, system administration, networking and information security aspects
Minimum Mandatory Skills: Cloud Applications
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
DevOps-API-Kubernetes
Test Management-Scrum Master
Desired Skills: ERP, VPC, IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, ECR, ECS, Lambda, AWS Backup, Cloud Watch, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, Cloud Trial, Route53, Event Bridge, KMS, SNS, Ontology Hub bash, Perl, Python and/or Ruby
Experience: Overall 5+ years
Source : TechDigital