Cloud Engineer - SME

Job Description

Description

Job Role Specific Requirements:

1. Designing, provisioning, and configuring cloud environments
   1.  AWS Engineer – Demonstrated proficiency using the AWS Console
   2.  Azure Engineer – Demonstrated proficiency using the Azure Portal
2. Demonstrated understanding of
   1. Configuring new workloads within CSP (e.g., AWS Control Tower, AWS Accounts, Azure Subscriptions/Resource Groups, CSP Policies and Security Controls)
   2. Configuring and troubleshooting CSP networking services (e.g., VPCs/VNETS, Private Links, Gateways, Load balancers)
   3. Configuring and troubleshooting CSP compute and storage services
   4. Configuring and maintaining security policies and controls
   5. Configuring and troubleshooting CSP native services
3. Demonstrated understanding of access control and security principals within CSP (Azure or AWS)
4. Advanced troubleshooting skills to diagnose and remediate root cause of cloud workload issues
5. Proficiency in automation through scripting – using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python and Ansible, including use of remote APIs
6. Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.
7. Understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption by application workloads – examples include API Gateway, Lambda functions, Cognito, AWS Code Commit, and container services, Azure Batch, Azure Blob, Kubernetes
8. Identifying opportunities and solutions to optimize cloud consumption by the agency
9. Collaborating with external development teams to validate solution architecture within agency cloud environment
10. Supporting strategic cloud initiatives, such as TIC 3.0, Zero Trust Architectures, and DevSecOps by providing architectural guidance and hands on implementation of approach
11. Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
12. Providing leadership to junior engineers to increase understanding of agency cloud environments

   Preferred skills and qualifications:

1. Demonstrated proficiency with deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower (AWS Oriented candidates only).
2. Experience implementing, managing, and supporting security products such as Palo Alto Prisma Cloud and XSOAR
3. Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, inclusive of containers
4. Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume

Qualifications

Experience:  Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.  Possess at least 1 Professional or Specialty certifcation from a cloud provider.

Duties:  In addition to the duties required of a Cloud Engineer Sr, a Cloud Engineer SME will provides technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure.   Troubleshoots cloud performance issues.  Analyzes network traffic and provides capacity planning solutions.

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and

   the ability to obtain a public trust

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 26,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.