Cloud Engineer 3 - 26513

Requisition Number: 26513

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $100,173.00 - $140,000.00

Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain

Level of Experience: Senior

This opportunity resides with Global Security (GS). Mission Technologies' Global Security (GS) group comprises live, virtual, constructive (LVC) solutions; fleet sustainment; nuclear and environmental; and Australia business.

As a trusted partner to our military customers, HII designs, develops and operates the largest LVC enterprise that prepares warfighters for cross-domain battle. With advanced technologies to enable mission readiness, HII understands that preparation requires full coordination-not readiness in piece-parts.

For more than 40 years, the U.S. Navy has entrusted HII to maintain and modernize the vast majority of its fleet. With a holistic approach to life-cycle maritime defense systems-from small watercraft to submarines, surface combatants and aircraft carriers-HII ensures a high state of readiness.

HII supports the Department of Energy's national security mission through the management and operation of its sites, as well as the safe cleanup of legacy waste across the country. HII meets clients' toughest nuclear and environmental challenges.

Meet HII's Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense - the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that's right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

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Job Description

Mission Technologies, a division of HII, is seeking a Cloud Engineer 3 to support the Joint Training Synthetic Environment (JTSE) Joint Staff J7(JS J-7) contract onsite at our Suffolk, VA Joint Staff Complex.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Provision and configure cloud resources, including compute, storage, networking, and databases, ensuring cost efficiency and performance.
• Automate provisioning of cloud resources using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Implement best practices for cloud security.
• Collaborate with the security team to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement mitigation strategies.
• Set up monitoring tools to monitor cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Optimize resource allocation to improve performance and reduce costs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining high availability.
• Integrate cloud services with existing CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure repeatability, scalability, and consistency across environments.
• Collaborate with software engineers, operations, and security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business needs.
• Provide technical guidance and support for teams working with cloud-based applications and services.
• Develop documentation and knowledge-sharing resources for cloud infrastructure and processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain active Secret security clearance; Must be able to obtain at least an interim Secret clearance within 90 days of offer acceptance.
• Experience with the Linux operating system.
• Experience in building and maintaining physical and virtual servers.
• Extensive experience with Gitlab, including merge requests and branching strategies.
• Experience with the Gitlab CI/CD process using pipelines and Gitlab Runners.
• Experience with developing, updating and maintaining Helm charts used for deploying containerized applications.
• Experience with image registries such as Artifactory, Harbor and/or Nexus.
• Extensive experience with container image tagging.
• Experience utilizing HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.
• Experience utilizing JIRA ticketing systems.
• Experience with accurate and thorough documentation of processes utilizing Confluence.
• Experience with backend databases to include building, configuring, optimizing and maintaining as well as being able to view, manipulate and extract data from within the database.
• Possess the ability to maintain multiple application deployments across several separate network environments.
• Understands and determines sizing, capacity planning and requirements for infrastructure, network, and security in the cloud offering
• Experience troubleshooting within cloud environments.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work both in a team and individually.
• Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and driven desire to succeed with minimal direction.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience deploying applications in cloud infrastructures such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience using common development environments or languages such as Go and Python.
• Experience with deploying and managing Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with Cybersecurity tools such as Trivy, Grype and Fortify.
• Knowledge of cluster security tools such as Istio.
• Experience with installing, maintaining and troubleshooting VMware infrastructure.
• Experience in maintaining an approved cyber posture on systems as well as applications.
• Experience with requesting, issuing, revoking and implementing SSL/TLS certificates.
• Experience with application data connections utilizing mTLS.
• Experience with ingress controllers.
• Experience deploying containerized applications utilizing ArgoCD.
• Experience managing Kubernetes cluster environments using Rancher and RKE2.
• Experience with authorization services such as LDAP, OAuth, OIDC and integrating these to secure RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with being a member of an Agile Development team, with a strong focus on the SCRUM framework, including participation in stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

HII is more than a job - it's an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonother non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.

Why HII
We build the world's most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.

Recognized as one of America's top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people's safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you'll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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