Job Description

Description

** ENHANCED SIGN-ON BONUS **

SAIC Hiring Priority – This position is eligible for a $20K Sign on Bonus *(pre-taxed)

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer with 10 years or more of relevant experience to work on a dynamic, energized team on a leading edge technology program with an exciting mission critical to national security objectives. 

This is an opportunity to use the latest cloud technologies to improve the customer’s environment and to develop mission critical applications. The successful candidate will provide cloud expertise to development activities on several different networks, including development networks. You’ll be able to sharpen your skills in cloud architecture design and roadmap creation while developing critical systems.  You must have the ability to work in a dynamic environment, balance priorities, and communicate effectively and collaborate with various stakeholders and partners. 

Job Duties:

• Work directly with stakeholders and Project Management team to coordinate planning, design, installation, and support\upgrades of new and existing technologies
• Recommend process improvements and conduct tool evaluations
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Develop and use scripts used to provision cloud based infrastructure such as instances, storage, routing, subnetting
• Assist with projects involving server, network, and cloud infrastructure support
• Support DevOps practices e.g., Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery 
• Create and maintain documentation and facilitate training of wider cloud services team
• Monitor Enterprise system, perform log management and event analysis via various tool sets, current and future
• Interact with senior personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations

Apply ingenuity and creativity to develop technical solutions to complex problems

Qualifications

• Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph
• 10 or more years of relevant experience
• A degree in an IT-related discipline; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Hands on demonstrable experience with Amazon web services (or equivalent cloud service)
• Experience with application management and providing high availability and resilient solutions using methods, including clustering or failover
• Experience with application performance analysis and monitoring
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with Virtualization
• Work well independently and in a team environment and has a willingness to cross train skills with other team members to create a more diverse technically competent team.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

Desired Skills and Experience

• Amazon Certifications are desired:  Certified Solutions Architect (Assoc or Professional), DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator
• Familiarity/hands on experience with Puppet, Terraform, Rundeck
• Familiarity/hands on experience with Kubernetes and Helm
• Familiarity/hands on experience with Docker
• TCP/IP networking familiarity, experience

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Overview

SAIC is a premier technology integrator solving our nation's modernization and readiness challenges. Our offerings across defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets include high-end solutions in engineering, IT, and mission outcomes. We integrate the best components from our portfolio with our partner's ecosystem to deliver innovative and effective solutions. We are 25,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, VA, SAIC has annual revenues of nearly $7.1 billion. For information, visit saic.com or Working at SAIC for benefits details. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer empowering people no matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We strive to create a diverse, inclusive and respectful work culture that values all.