Cloud Engineer - Applied Research Associates, Inc

Are you looking for a career where you can make a difference?  ARA can provide that!  We are a 100% employee-owned company looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our team supporting research and development projects. We are dedicated to supporting Department of Defense and operational warfighter needs, while also being committed to supporting our employee-owners throughout their entire career. This position is located at Eglin AFB, Florida on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

ARA offers an excellent benefits package that includes:

401-K Retirement (Both traditional and Roth) with employer matching, Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Various Insurance options including Flexible Spending Plan and a Health Savings Account, Paid leave, and holidays.

Duties:

The successful candidate will be working on a team that is building a cloud-based development environment. They will work with a multi-disciplinary collaborative team of hardware, software engineers, and security specialists to design and implement a secure cloud-based software development and maintenance environment. They will be innovating and applying the latest security technologies and processes designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the environment. Implementing DevSecOps to include change control, testing and automation, vulnerability identification and remediation, endpoint security management, and identity and access management; furthermore, incorporating security solutions through automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

Required skills:

• Experience managing ADDS and DNS configurations in multiple environments
• Hands on experience with various scripting and source control technologies (git, artifactory, nexus, bitbucket, S3 backups, etc.)
• Ability to carry out the responsibilities of this position with little direction
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams of administrators, security personnel, developers, testers, analysts, and program managers
• Intermediate knowledge of standard scripting technologies (WMI, PowerShell, Bash, python)
• Must possess strong troubleshooting skills and analytical skills
• Proactively seeks cost reduction in regard to overall cloud infrastructure forecasting, usage, and manages budgetary practices
• Intermediate knowledge of Atlassian products and configuration (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Fisheye, Crucible, etc.)
• Intermediate knowledge of Agile development and IT practices
• Intermediate knowledge of supporting software development and CI/CD pipelines
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container technologies
• Expert knowledge of Linux systems administration
• Expert knowledge of Windows systems administration

Experience

• 7 - 9 years: Cloud engineering or related

Education

• Bachelor of Science or better in Computer Science or related field

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)