AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer with an active Interim Secret clearance to be a part of a team responsible for evolving and transforming the Air Force Cloud One DevSecOps environment. The Cloud One environment is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that will serve the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army (USA). Cloud One incorporates the capabilities of commercial cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSP) residing in Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud One facilitates the USAF and USA’s efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF and USA's IT operations. 

This position is contingent upon funding.  Once funding is awarded, the role will be 100% remote.

Job Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and document fault-tolerant, multi-region applications leveraged by over 100 AWS customer accounts.
• Make cloud-savvy decisions that improve cost optimization, scalability, and operational management of existing Cloud One common services.
• Provide specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques, application & data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Develop and conduct testing of multi-region failover capabilities within the new system.
• Maintain technical expertise on relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture.
  • Design, and configuration;
  • Cloud service delivery models including infrastructure, platform, and software as a service
  • Automation
  • Hypervisors 
  • Containers
  • Virtual compute, storage, and networks
• Virtual infrastructure management and scaling
• Modernize existing cloud common services using new cloud computing and virtualization technologies.
• May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System & Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis & Estimation, and Decision Analysis.
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience.
• Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Required Clearance:

• Active Interim Secret clearance required to start; Ability to obtain a Secret clearance required to maintain employment

Required Certifications:

• Security +
• US citizenship required

Required Experience and Skills:

• Git Lab experience
• Terraform/Terragrunt experience
• Cloud networking experience (Amazon VPC, Transit Gateway, advanced NACL/Security Group knowledge)
• Experience deploying and running containerized applications in the cloud (Docker)
• Kubernetes design, deployment, operations, and sustainment
• Knowledge of core AWS computer services (EC2, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic loadbalancing)
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure/application-level monitoring (CloudWatch, canaries, APM)
• Knowledge of SAML federation (Active Directory/ADFS)
• Firewall configuration (Palo Alto/Barracuda)

Desired Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 4 years designing and deploying infrastructure to run COTS/GOTS applications in AWS.
• Minimum IAT II Certification (or equivalent) (Cyber Awareness, ITIL, Security + or higher)
• Minimum secret clearance
• Minimum AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
• Jenkins experience
• Atlassian tools (Jira/Confluence) experience
• Active Directory/ADFS experience
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Amazon WorkSpaces, Guacamole)
• EKS
• Grafana/Prometheus
• F5 BIG-IP
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating fault-tolerant, multi-region applications in AWS
• Experience testing multi-region failover capabilities
• Experience in DoD cloud environments

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 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.