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Skills
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Sr. Cloud Engineer
Remote
Long term
Custom Skill Requirements
Sr. Cloud Engineer
AWS
Azure
Ansible
Contractor Qualifying Questions
Are you a ?
Do you have Dual Citizenship?
Are you a Sr. Cloud Engineer?
Do you have extensive CMT industry experience?
Can you design and implement Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments?
Are you able to manage CSP Image architecture?
Can you lead junior team members?
Do you have experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model?
Do you have Configuration management using Ansible?
Responsibilities:
- Senior support engineer for customers, as well as the more junior members of the team
- Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments, including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the CSP ecosystem
- Deploy/Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets
- Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
- Leading junior team members through deployment and implementation of systems infrastructure projects and overseeing the Cloud environments based on customer requirements
- Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls
- Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation
- Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed
- Mentoring junior members of the team
Required Skills & Experience:
- Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model, supporting external customers.
- Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and Google Cloud Platform optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure, Networking, Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform
- Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB, GitHub, Jenkin
- Prior experience provisioning and spinning up Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations
- Hands on Terraform experience
- Possession of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience working in Federal or State government environments
- Understanding of Security and Vulnerability management and related tools (OKTA, Tenable, TrendMicro, XSoar, CyberARK)
- In depth knowledge of UNIX/Linux and Windows Environment
- End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS)
- Good written and verbal English communication
- Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
- Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud)
- Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred, DataDog, Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
- Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
-Process Flows
-Mentor and Knowledge transfer to client project team members
-Participate as primary, co and/or contributing author on any and all project deliverables associated with their assigned areas of responsibility
-Participate in data conversion and data maintenance
-Provide best practice and industry specific solutions
-Advise on and provide alternative (out of the box) solutions
-Provide thought leadership as well as hands on technical configuration/development as needed.
-Participate as a team member of the functional team
-Perform other duties as assigned.