Cloud Engineer

Company: US Main
Location: Mc Lean
Posted on: May 14, 2025

Job Description:

Title: Cloud Engineer

Apply promptly! A high volume of applicants is expected for the role as detailed below, do not wait to send your CV.
Location: Tysons Corner, VA(Local to DMV or nearby(onsite three times a week would be required))
Clearance: To obtain a clearance, you must be a U.S. citizen

The Cloud Engineer will have overall responsibility supporting DevOpsSec pipeline development, performance monitoring / configuration, billing / usage of cloud resources, and migration of SEVIS applications and services between cloud environments. The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for planning and delivering solutions that improve connectivity and data processing between SEVIS and external partners such as CBP and DoS. The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for setting up and maintaining dev, test, UAT and staging environments. The Cloud Engineer will design and deploy (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy infrastructure as code (IaC).

Required Skills/Experience: Bachelor's degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment OR No Bachelor's Degree with ten (10) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment.

Desired Skills/Experience:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.

Experience with DevOpsSec pipeline tools including configuration management, requirements (e.g. JIRA), automated testing, automated deployments (CI/CD pipelines), blue green deployments, and branching strategy and implementation.

Experience developing web services and application programming interfaces (APIs), with knowledge of open standards, such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration), and an understanding of how APIs are engineered.

Technical proficiency designing and implementing Cloud-based AWS solutions.

Experience applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile solution designs to minimize technical debt and improve overall velocity.

Experience designing logical and network diagrams.

Experience with migration of applications from AWS Commercial Cloud to FedRamp Approved Gov Cloud.

Proficient in network communication protocols, ports, routing, proxy settings, and firewall policies.

Experience designing solutions compliant with the Federal Information Management Security Act (FISMA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Security Standards and Security Requirements.

Experience with Message Services, such as development of Apache ActiveMQ services, MuleSoft and/or Apache Camel.

Experience with microservices / container architectures (e.g. Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes), orchestration and automation.

Proven ability to develop root cause analysis, problem identification and resolution, and roadmap for problems within system design and implementation of existing and new systems.

Technical proficiency in optimizing system performance and resource utilization through log and monitoring analysis .

Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, such as (but not limited to) Data Dog, AppDynamics and/or NewRelic.

Experience with designing and implementing Cloud-based hosting solutions, as well as Cloudbased backup and recovery, including failover zones.

Familiar with best practices in billing and accounting with AWS to minimize oversubscription of services.

Experience in database management and administration (Mongo DB and Oracle).

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