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Sr. Cloud Engineer
Location: Washington, DC
Alltech is an award winning provider of IT services with nationwide project capabilities. Since 1994, Alltech’s focus on quality support to the Federal Government and Government Integrators has led it to become a leader in the Federal Services marketplace.
Description:
Our program has full lifecycle Agile Software Development and O&M for our cloud and on-prem systems. Our program works to develop and maintain a translation workflow tool to facilitate linguistics for the Intelligence Community.
The successful senior level cloud engineer will provide hands on interaction and support for the entire team developing and implementing AWS services and support duties. The on-site cloud engineer will also coordinate the O&M team as well as program leadership to schedule O&M activates for efficient new deployments , integration of services, modifications, or standard deployment of upgrades. The position will play a key role in designing and managing our operational environment while working through the ATO achievement and into full operations.
Duties:
Manage the complete AWS lifecycle including security, provisioning, and automation..
Develop, integrate, and manage AWS VPC, and other networking components
Develop, integrate, and manage AWS services such as Lambda, SNS, SQS etc., using Java technologies
Establish metrics and carefully monitor the utilization of AWS resources leveraging AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail and Splunk.
Effectively monitor billing and develop cost optimization strategies
Automate infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation
Automate repetitive mundane manual tasks using PowerShell script
Provide keen insights and recommendations on best practices and implementations from a SA perspective
Work closely with Security Engineer to meet NIST-800-53 controls and server STIG/Vulnerability compliance
Establish and maintain the architecture of multi-tier systems
Maintain access control and integrity of data throughout the application life cycle
Works with a cross functional operational team in a cloud based, Windows 2019 OS environment
Occasional support as Tier 2 and Tier 3 Help Desk support conducting operational duties supporting security, configuration, networking, OS patching, application deployments, server upgrades, and 3rd party software upgrades
Will work onsite in DC alongside the customer
Required:
Strong demonstrated working experience in the AWS cloud developing, integrating, and managing AWS instances.
Cloud networking experience (Route Tables, NACLs, Security Groups, ports/protocols) to facilitate both application functionality and firewall compliance
Function as technical SME in design, modification, and debugging bare-metal and virtual Windows Servers
System hardening experience via GPO, registry, system configuration, and WSUS patch management
Knowledge or experience with Risk Management Framework and Authority to Operates (ATO)
4 or more years of experience performing systems administration and O&M tasks for Windows systems.