Cloud Engineer

Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government were passionate about creating solutions that are impactful practical scalable and most importantly that meet our clients ever-changing needs.

At Steampunk we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors while repurposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

As a Cloud Engineer you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud migration cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with cloud platform services and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation. Responsibilities include:

• Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer
• Design develop and deploy modular cloud-based systems
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Automate and improve configuration provisioning deploymentand release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems performing root cause analysis and developing software updates and fixes
• Working with software developers and DevSecOps engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Supportenterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure throughinfrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations large-scale software deployments and monitoring and testing
• Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with organizational security policies and best practices
• Document as-is state of the environment perform a gap analysis and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Identify analyze and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
• 5 total years of experience
• 3 Years of Experience architecting designing developing and implementing cloud solutions
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS Azure or GCP)
• 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub GitLab Bitbucket
• 3 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment
• 3 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
• 3 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration
• Experience with cloud-native networking components (e.g. AWS VPC Transit Gateway Azure VNets)
• Experience with troubleshooting and resolving networking and cloud infrastructure issues
• Must have and maintain an active cloud related certification

Preferred:

• Certifications:
  • AWS Certified DevOos Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solution SysOps Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
  • SAFe DevOps Certification
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment perform a gap analysis and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred
• Experience with scripting in Concourse Bash PowerShell Python Groovy or Ruby
• Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience with automation tools including Pivotal Chef Terraform CloudFormation or Ansible
• Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture ETL business intelligence big data machine learning advanced analytics

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary including but not limited to geographic location contractual requirements education knowledge skills competencies and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $100000 to $155000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunks total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

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Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by participates in the E-Verify program.