Principal Cloud Automation Engineer (AWS) Level 6 - Argo Cyber Systems

Principal Cloud Automation Engineer (AWS) Level 6

Job Description: Argo Cyber Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Argo Cyber Systems is seeking a Principal Cloud Automation Engineer (AWS) to assess, design, and develop an agile, DevOps-oriented, cloud-centric, requirements-driven, autonomously orchestrated architectures and environments to ensure the rigor, consistency, and continued reliability of mission-critical environments. This position is for an individual who fundamentally disagrees with the continued use of repetitive manual operational tasks over automated workflows, while trusting mature, automated resources to deploy any given system over manual deployment more accurately.

This position requires a minimum of a USG Secret Security Clearance

Responsibilities include:

- Working with the Chief Cloud Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer

- Working to help define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision

- Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities

- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.

- Full lifecycle oversight of requirements-driven automation architecture

Required Skills:

- Must be a U.S. Citizen

- Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

- Ability to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor

- Experience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levels

- Ability to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant facts

- Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills

- 10+ years of professional experience in a technology-related field

- 6+ years of experience in AWS

- 5+ years of direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous API-driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event-driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration-driven deployments

Desired Skills:

- Experience leading teams and projects at either the Tech Lead or Product Owner level

- Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform, or cloud-native tools like CloudFormation

- Familiarity with Identity Management (RHEL IDM, Azure Active Directory)

- Experience with scripting, Linux packages, and dependencies

- Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows - Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories

- Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,

- Experience designing and implementing event-driven microservice architectures

- Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects

- Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments

- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience

- Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certifications:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner (SP) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)