Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Clearance) - Chainbridge Solutions

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Works with Chainbridge Partner team to support cloud migration efforts for a federal client.
• Manage Chainbridge Solutions’ internal and customer-based application architectures.
• Provision and oversee AWS environments for development teams and customer installations.
• Gather middleware requirements, configurations, and support development of infrastructure as code hosting solutions.
• Perform basic Linux administration tasks including patching, monitoring, starting and stopping services.
• Support software releases for customer sites outside normal business hours, handling all application server changes or actions.
• Offer AWS and Middleware architecture guidance to customers and Chainbridge Solutions team members.
• Migrates a large applications from an on-prem environment to a cloud environment. Communicates with senior leadership on migration status and advises on best practices for managing the application in a cloud environment.
• Works with JIRA, AWS, DevOps, or equivalent technologies to manage application software requirements, user stories, test cases, and test defects. 
• Configures and utilizes cloud-native services to provision and manage infrastructure resources such as, but not limited to:
  
  
  • IaC (Infrastructure as Code), including routine environment standups. 
  • Terraform, CloudFormation or similar service that allows description and provisioning of all the infrastructure resources used within the GovCloud environment. 
  • Cloud Monitoring tools such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Watch.
  • EC2, EBS (Elastic Block Storage), Auto-scaling, S3 Storage, S3 Glacier Storage, and Simple notification servers or equivalent.

Experience and Skill Requirements

• US Citizen 
• Holds current Top Secret Clearance 
• 1+ years of cloud engineering experience
• Basic experiencen within and ability to learn the AWS ecosystem
• AWS certifications preferred. 
• Excellent communication skills.
• Must be able to work onsite in Washington DC 
• Security first mindset with experience with applying security best practices to AWS environments including hardening and patching operating systems.
• Basic experience with infrastructure as code using terraform and/or ansible.

• Frequently remain in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time looking at a computer screen.
• Continuous verbal and written communication with others to exchange information.
• Continuous repetitive movements that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Comprehension - Must continuously be able to understand direction and adhere to established procedures.
• Organization - Must continuously be able to gather and classify information.
• Reasoning and Decision Making - Must continuously use logic to analyze and interpret information and prioritize.