Job Description
Our federal client is seeking a Junior Cloud Engineer to join their dynamic team. This team supports 5+ environments ranging from developer sandboxes all the way to production. This individual will be passionate about cloud, DevOps, automation, system administration and software development. As we seek to deliver mission critical cloud services to the federal government, the stability, automation, and scalability will be critical to our success. This individual will work with many teams to pursue industry best practice and seek to collaborate with many stakeholders including customers.
Required Skills & Experience
* Must be a US Citizen
* At least 2 years of experience in and knowledge of:
* Linux
* Cloud infrastructure in AWS or Azure
* Configuration management experience through Ansible/Terraform/Chef/Puppet
* Git, CI/CD and other development tools
* Scripting skills in at least one language (e.g. Python, PowerShell, Bash)
* Have experience with monitoring tools such as Elasticsearch / Elastic Stack (ELK), ECE, Splunk, CloudWatch, etc. in order to engage with project monitoring and incident response activities
* Has a understanding of data transit between APIs (data ingest, index frameworks), data normalization and cleansing concepts, and the networking and software implications
* Experience with supporting containerized services in production
* Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Able to work in a dynamic team environment, collaborate well with others, and take initiative to solve problems
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
* Success in supporting a broad array of cloud services
* Experience delivering technical excellence in the federal space
* Familiarity with managing the Atlassian suite of ALM tools
* Strong understanding of DevOps processes, methodologies and philosophies
* Strong experience with both AWS and Azure Cloud Environments
* Experience with containerization and microservice architectures
* Relevant professional level cloud, DevOps, Elastic certifications
* Be familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices in order to engage with leadership and government customers on project development
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.