Senior Cloud Engineer - Automation Engineer - Plus3 IT Systems

Who YOU are:

As a future Senior Cloud Automation Engineer at Plus3 IT Systems, you:

• Are passionate about working on cutting edge, high profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
• Aren't satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments
• Are insatiably curious and willing to learn – you ask why, you explore, and you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea in front of a team of highly collaborative peers
• Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team and customers
• Have a keen interest in using any and all appropriate tools, especially Cloud-based and Open Source, to solve the problem at hand
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together
• Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment
• Are obsessed with automation, simplicity, and smooth-running systems

What you'll be doing:

• Building and maintaining automation tooling and pipelines that enable secured systems to be deployed across a variety of environments, including public/private cloud, virtual machines, or bare metal servers.
• Developing automation to standardize and secure cloud services such as server operating system builds, including Windows and Linux, that are compliant with enterprise standards and security policy.
• Developing, deploying, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure and applications as code for a global agency supporting security monitoring and big data
• Solving challenging problems involving system and environment internals, to provide solutions that are simple to use, but can be customized to meet customer needs.
• Work with customer and end users to determine migration path for existing tools and services, guiding future enterprise capabilities.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to test build releases and ensure builds provide a consistent core foundation for hosting government and commercial applications.
• Supporting technologies and products, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, RedHat Linux, CentOS, Saltstack, Terraform, Git, GitOps, Python

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience
• 14 years of relevant experience.
• Top Secret clearance
• A strong desire to learn!

 Desired Qualifications:

• DoD 8570 IAT Level II (or equivalent) certification
• Active Cloud Certifications
  • Basic Level
  • Pro Level
• Top Secret Clearance with ability to obtain an SCI and CI poly
• Desired experience with following tools and products: PowerShell, Python, Javascript, Terraform, Saltstack, Ansible, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Travis-CI, Azure Pipelines, CodeBuild
• PowerShell Cloud modules a plus (Azure RM, Az)
• Desired experience with practices and concepts: DevSecOps, GitOps, ConfigOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Declarative Programming, Event-driven Architectures/Pipelines
• Experience with Cloud command line tools (Azure CLI, AWS CLI) a plus.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.