Cloud Engineer

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Are you an experienced Cloud Engineer looking for your next challenge Your search ends here! We have an exciting opportunity for you to support several Programs in the Orlando Area. Your expertise will guide the definition implementation and delivery of capability focused on Cyber Training systems and Synthetic Environment Generation. Youll have the chance to work with a broad range of systems providing overall support for various critical systems. Join our team and make a difference in the world of training systems and cybersecurity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the design implementation operation and maintenance of complex information systems virtual devices containerized devices and physical devices in traditional and hyper-converged architectures.
• Responsible for high-level day-to-day operational maintenance support and upgrades for complex operating systems workstations and servers.
• Coordinates directs and performs complex software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages. Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.
• Continually monitors and tunes multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating implementing and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities.
• Ensures data/media recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.
• Develops implements and promotes standard operating procedures and schedules.
• Conducts audits of systems to ensure compliance with established standards policies and configuration guidelines.
• Support the design documentation and implementation of enhancements to the system ensuring that application software cybersecurity and operational use cases are fully accounted for.
• Ensure maximum system uptime and rapidly respond to system failures.
• Quickly diagnoses operational performance or other issues and leads the implementation of resolutions.
• Proven experience in network administration and account management.
• Strong understanding of user account management processes and access control protocols.
• Design and deploy infrastructure:Assist in the design and implementation of cloud solutions on platforms likeAWS Azure or GCP within the Cloud One service provider.
• Automate workflows:Develop and maintain automation scripts and IaC templates using tools likeTerraform CloudFormation or Ansibleto streamline the provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Manage CI/CD:Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools likeJenkins GitLab CI or AWS CodePipeline.
• Monitor and troubleshoot:Proactively monitor the health performance and cost of cloud resources using tools likeCloudWatch Prometheus or Grafana. Respond to and resolve incidents related to cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure security and compliance:Implement and maintain security best practices access controls (IAM) and governance policies within the cloud environment.
• Collaborate and mentor:Work with other engineers and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions. Help mentor more junior team members.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree with 4 years of experience or a Masters Degree with 2 years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain at least a Secret clearance during your employment
• Active Security CE
• Relevant cloud certifications such asAWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Engineer.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like theELK StackPrometheus orGrafana.
• Prior experience with database administration in a cloud environment.
• Experience Splunk Security Technical implementation Guides (STIGs) PowerShell and Group Policies.
• Experience with Linux.
• Experience maintaining and configuring local area networks (LAN) and wide area networks (WAN)
• Experience with Enterprise Virtualization (VMWare Proxmox)
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks (e.g. HIPAA GDPR NIST) affecting account management practices.
• Experience with Active Directory LDAP or similar directory services.
• Familiarity with network security protocols and best practices.
• Knowledge of basic networking concepts (e.g. TCP/IP DNS DHCP).
• Familiarity with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password management tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) for new technologies.
• Experience with SharePoint Server
• Experience with DNS/DHCP IPAM (BlueCat) load balancers (F5) Authentication Systems (Clearpass).
• Familiar with managing and configuring Dell iDRAC VMWare ESXI and VMWare VCenter.
• Familiar with configuring network devices utilizing Python and Ansible.
• Experience with enterprise network management tools such as HPNA SolarWinds Cisco Smartnet LiveAction Splunk or similar technologies with WAN/SDWAN/SDN system analysis and design documents.
• Knowledge of ITIL Change & Configuration Management.
• IAT Level III Certified

At Leidos we dont want someone who fits the moldwe want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless the over-caffeinated the ones who ask whats next before the dust settles on whats now.

If youre already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2 good. Youll fit right in.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.