Cloud Engineer

Leidos has an exciting opening for you as a Cloud Engineerto play a critical role with design engineering development deployment and use of software for the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) where we support our clients mission to centralize and standardize Tasking Collection Processing Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise. We integrate off the shelf and newly development software to sustain and enhance the TCPED platform. We leverage cloud-based computing artificial intelligence (Al) machine learning (ML) and cross-domain transfer systems to provide cutting edge data exploitation enrichment triage and analytics capabilities to Defense and Intelligence Community members. DTP advances the state of the art in mission-focused big data analytics tools and micro-service development spanning the breadth of Agile sprints to multiyear research and development cycles.

As a Cloud Engineer you will be responsible for technical duties such as infrastructure design creation maintenance and support associated with cloud computing. You will be working closely with our Cloud Architect Solution Architects Systems Engineers Software Engineers and Operations Engineering/Manager as well as Government counterparts to perform and manage our cloud solution cloud computing strategy and all associated work will be conducted on-site at our client locations in either Bethesda MD or Reston VA. Occasionally some tasks may be performed remotely.

As a Cloud Engineer you will collaborate with our engineering and infrastructure teams to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the program.

• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.

• Employing exceptional problem-solving skills.

• Building and designing web services in the cloud.

• Designing and implementing cloud-based platforms throughout the program.

• Coordinate with DTP team to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.

• Assist with monitoring & reporting technical variances; facilitate resolution of technical issues that adversely impact successful product delivery or total system cost.

• Assist with identifying and supporting external dependencies where needed.

To be successful in this role you need (required):

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience with 8-12 years in systems engineering or other relevant field. Masters degree with 6years experience.

• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.

• Experience with Commercial Cloud Services (C2S)

• Knowledge of classified environments security enclave

• Experience with cloud-based services preferably AWS for enterprise applications

• Cloud Admin Skills in AWS -- ec2 elb/alb s3 efs vpc aws cli cloud theory

• Experience with Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

• Experience with container deployment platforms such as Kubernetes Openshift

• Experience with SecDevOps and CI/CD pipeline

• Experience working with Linux operating system.

• Knowledge of web services: API REST

• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols

• Extensive experience with open-source technology software development and system engineering.

• Experience developing basic tooling and scripting: UNIX shell Python Perl or similar.

• IaC coding scripting (CDK/Cloud formation preferred)

• Salt (preferred) or some other config management tool (Ansible preferred)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives domain experts systems engineers and architects.

• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.

You will wow us even more if you have:

• AWS cloud certifications

• Experience with micro services architecture

• Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing

• Experience with big data applications.

• Experience supporting DIA/NMEC DIA/OSIC and/or D3P

• OSINT familiarity

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