Principal Cloud Engineer

***Not Open to C2C***

Position:
Principal Cloud Engineer

Location:
Washington, DC (In office 5 days a week)

Clearance:
Public Trust (OR willingness to obtain, U.S. Citizenship required)

Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

• 12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure – preferred experience is DevOps focused
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
• Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption
• Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions
• Experience deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower
• Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting
• Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
• Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, and load balancers
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
• Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
• Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
• Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure

Job Role Specific Requirements:

• Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
• Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
• Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
• Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
• Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including
• Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
• AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53