Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Description

Job Description

The Enterprise Solutions and Operations Group of SAIC in Huntsville, AL has an opening for a Senior Cloud Engineer. 

As a member of an Agile Team for the Enterprise Solutions and Operations group, selected candidate will be a member of a highly-skilled and motivated team responsible for the assessment, design and implemention of solutions in a variety of software applictions and integrated systems. Agile Teams at SAIC are responsible for initiating new project startups, participating in technical demonstrations in support of bids and proposals, supporting existing project surge needs, as well as research and development of cutting edge solutions. An SAIC Agile Team in Huntsville is currently expanding to support a new project initiation for the Air Force.

• The candidate will work with various Air Force and Army C#/.NET and Java applications, enhancing and migrating them to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Environments (CCE)
• Candidate will be required to collaborate with other Agile Team members and engineers outside of Huntsville and outside of SAIC for software development activities and general integration
• Candidate needs to be able to quickly learn cloud-computing concepts, and work with potential application migration customers within the DoD community. As expected, candidate will be developing using an Agile development environment, using various DevSecOps tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket (Git), Jenkins, and Docker

Qualifications

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering and five (5) years or more experience
• Master’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering and three (3) years or more experience is required
• Additional years' experience will be considered in lieu of degree

Required Skills:  The ideal candidate should have experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure cloud portals, as well general operating system, web server and database configuration understanding.

• Should have general knowledge of experience with Linux O/S and Windows O/S PowerShell commands, and a good understanding of the C# and Java programming languages
• 3-5 years of related job experience with cloud-computing development is required
• Should be able to analyze, refactor, compile and test source code. Must be able to understand and utilize Git configuration management tools. Understanding of cloud computing architecture principles is required
• Understanding of basic object-oriented concepts and complex data structures is required

Desired Skills/Certifications:

• Certifications with Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure is a plus
• Security+ certification is a BIG plus
• Networking and Firewall configuration experience/knowledge also a plus
• CloudFormation/Terraform/Ansible experience is a plus
• Scrum Master and/or Product Owner experience/certification is a plus; or any DevSecOps certificaitons is a plus

Clearance Requirement:

• Must be able to Obtain Secret Clearance 

COVID Policy: Prospective and/or new employees are required to adhere with SAIC's vaccination policy. All SAIC employees must be fully vaccinated and they must submit proof of vaccination on their first day of employment. Prospective or new employees may seek an exemption to the vaccination requirement at Contact Us and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Where work is performed strictly at a customer site, customer site vaccination requirements preempt SAIC's vaccination policy.
Target salary range: $100,001 - $125,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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 more than 26,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a respectful work culture based on diversity, equity, and inclusion that values all contributors. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.