SZ-147 Cloud System Integrator Level 2

Job Title: SZ-147 - Cloud System Integrator - Level 2
Location (On-site Remote or Hybrid): Hanover MD (Onsite)
Contract Duration: Contract until 06/13/2031

Position Overview
This position supports an Intelligence Community (IC) agency program in Hanover MD delivering cloud infrastructure integration and engineering for mission-critical classified systems. The Cloud System Integrator (Level 2) designs implements and maintains cloud environments across modernization and migration efforts ensuring systems meet governance requirements and best practices within a classified operating environment. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph prior to start and reports into an embedded program team supporting IC mission priorities.
Candidates should bring 7-10 years of progressive cloud infrastructure experience with demonstrated depth in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) container orchestration and multi-cloud architecture. This position requires direct employment with EmergeATS (Kroll subsidiary). No sub-to-sub arrangements.

Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure Design and Implementation

• Design implement and maintain cloud infrastructure including modernization migration and roadmap planning ensuring alignment with governance requirements and security best practices
• Design and implement secure scalable cloud architectures across compute storage networking and IAM
• Stay current on emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to existing systems
• Infrastructure as Code and Automation
• Build reusable IaC modules (e.g. Helm Charts Terraform) and enforce development standards for creation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and maintain IaC using tools including Terraform CloudFormation and AWS CDK
• Manage container and platform workloads using Docker Kubernetes EKS AKS and GKE
• Monitoring Reliability and Incident Response
• Continuously monitor infrastructure health and performance using logging and alerting tools (CloudWatch Prometheus/Grafana ELK/OpenSearch) and respond to incidents
• Implement and test backup disaster recovery and high-availability strategies
• Manage secrets and key management using tools such as KMS KeyVault and Secret Manager including certificate and rotation policies
• Cost Optimization and Reporting
• Provide strategies for failure recovery high availability cost optimization (tagging budgets rightsizing autoscaling) and cloud service benefit analysis
• Optimize cloud cost and performance and produce usage and cost reports
• Documentation and Continuous Improvement
• Contribute to deliverables including architectures runbooks and operational procedures and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams
• Track and report on performance metrics where applicable
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities and efficiency

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Systems Engineering Information Technology Information Systems or a related technical discipline (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree)
• Experience: 7 years of progressive cloud infrastructure and systems engineering experience in DoD or IC classified environments

Additional Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph -- must be active prior to start
• Experience provisioning configuring and managing cloud infrastructure and services (compute storage networking IAM)
• Experience designing and implementing secure scalable cloud architectures
• Experience developing and maintaining IaC using Terraform CloudFormation AWS CDK or equivalent
• Knowledge of container and platform workloads (Docker Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE)
• Experience configuring monitoring logging and alerting (CloudWatch Prometheus/Grafana ELK/OpenSearch) and responding to incidents
• Experience implementing and testing backup disaster recovery and high-availability strategies
• Experience managing secrets and key management (KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager) certificates and rotation policies
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance (tagging budgets rightsizing autoscaling) and producing usage/cost reports
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS routing VPN) security and service limits
• Experience documenting architectures runbooks and operational procedures
• Experience with Linux OS

Desired Skills

• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI or equivalent) in a classified environment
• Experience with FedRAMP High NIST 800-53 RMF or STIG compliance in cloud configurations
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS GovCloud Azure Government GCP)
• Scripting proficiency (Python Bash or Go)
• Experience with GitOps workflows and version control in classified environments
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies

Part 3: Technical Skills Keywords (For VNDLY Tags)

Must Have (10 tags):

1. Active TS/SCI Full Scope Polygraph
2. Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
3. Infrastructure as Code Terraform
4. Kubernetes Container Orchestration
5. AWS GovCloud Architecture3
6. CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Monitoring
7. Disaster Recovery High Availability
8. Secrets Key Management KMS
9. Linux OS Administration
10. Cloud Cost Optimization

Nice to Have (6 tags):

1. CI/CD Pipeline Classified Environment
2. FedRAMP NIST 800-53 RMF
3. Multi-Cloud AWS Azure GCP
4. Python Bash Scripting
5. GitOps Version Control
6. Agile Scrum DevOps