PaaS Cloud Engineer Active TS (SCI and CIPoly Eligible)

Vibrint is a trusted provider of mission-critical systems and analysis that transform our customers capacity and capability in harvesting and harnessing data. Working alongside many of the most talented professionals in public service we work tirelessly to create and sustain new solutions and services that meet the stringent demands across a variety of customer missions.

Our people know theyll be doing work that matters at the heart of the national security mission exploring new possibilities at the cutting edge of technology. They know they will be well-rewarded and recognized for their commitment. Our people know they will enjoy plentiful opportunities to grow thrive and have fun as a member of the Vibrint family. Join Vibrint where your career is a priority and your future is our shared goal.

We are seeking a proactive Platform as a Service (PaaS Engineer) to join our team in support of the Enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) environment. The PaaS Engineer will assist the Program Management Office (PMO) oversee and support the design deployment and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure underpinning the GIS platform. This role emphasizes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure repeatable secure and highly available deployments across both cloud and on-premise systems while keeping mission needs and performance requirements at the forefront.

The PaaS Engineer monitors vendor activities related to deployment pipeline development automated provisioning and infrastructure maintenance. The role assists the Government Program Management Office (GPMO) in managing cloud and on-prem resources to include AWS UDS and Enterprise GIS components to ensure the environment remains cost-optimized resilient and performant.

This position supports Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline oversight ensuring vendors maintain properly functioning build test and deployment workflows. The role also verifies that observability tooling to include auto-scaling load balancing logging monitoring and alerting has been properly configured. Engineer advises the GPMO on vendor tool selection licensing and cost considerations to ensure effective resource utilization.

Security responsibilities include reviewing vendor-implemented network security controls and ensuring compliance with enterprise cybersecurity standards. The role also provides oversight for container orchestration ensuring the GIS PaaS platform can support microservices containerized GIS servers and managed geospatial workloads.

Key deliverables include assessments of vendor deployment scripts validated CI/CD pipelines system health dashboards alerting rules and security compliance reports all contributing to a stable and mission-ready hosting environment for GIS SMEs.

Required Skills:

• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering DevOps engineering or platform services engineering supporting enterprise-scale environments.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services to include networking compute storage and managed container services.
• Familiarity with Unified Data Systems (UDS) hybrid cloud deployments and management of on-premise infrastructure components supporting GIS workloads.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines automated testing and release management for distributed applications.
• Strong understanding of system monitoring observability stacks (e.g. CloudWatch Grafana ELK) auto-scaling and load balancing.
• Ability to evaluate vendor deployment artifacts identify risks and recommend improvements to ensure reliability repeatability and security.
• Active TS/SCI and ability to obtain/maintain CI Poly.

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting geospatial platforms or enterprise environments with complex data analytics or visualization components.
• Familiarity with Esri Enterprise OGC services containerized GIS services or microservices architectures.
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps secure pipeline practices and automated security scanning.
• Experience with Kubernetes Docker or similar container orchestration technologies.
• Cloud certification(s) such as AWS Solutions Architect AWS DevOps Engineer or equivalent.
• Experience advising PMO/GPMO teams on cloud cost management vendor tooling and infrastructure optimization strategies.

Qualifications:

• Enterprise-Level Cloud Platform Engineering Expertise: Demonstrated ability to design oversee and validate secure automated cloud and hybrid deployments supporting mission-critical systems with emphasis on IaC and CI/CD automation.
• Infrastructure Governance & Security Compliance: Experience ensuring vendor adherence to enterprise security standards network configurations and compliance requirements across classified and unclassified environments.
• Containerization & Modernization Skills: Hands-on understanding of container orchestration microservices patterns and enabling containerized GIS or related workloads within PaaS environments.
• Cross-Team & Vendor Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with vendors PMO/GPMO leadership and mission stakeholders to ensure platform reliability cost-efficiency and operational readiness.
• Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI and CI/Poly Eligible).

Vibrints comprehensive compensation package includes but is not limited to: competitive salary; annual merit-based salary increase and discretionary bonus program; 401(k) plan with a company contribution; 11 paid federal holidays; 160 hours of paid time off; medical dental vision life and short- & long-term disability insurance; employee assistance program; and a generous professional development allowance.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin citizenship family structure marital status disability veteran or military status or any other characteristic protected by law in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal state and local laws and regulations.

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Please apply for immediate consideration.

Required Experience:

IC