Cloud Engineer

M9 Solutions is seeking a Cloud Engineer to work hybrid remote/on-site in support of a government contract for a client located in Washington, DC. An active TS/SCI clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in a range of cloud technologies to include cloud development, cloud architecture, cloud system engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps engineering and operations, and Agile development methodologies.
• Lead a team on projects of various layers of complexity and create solutions involving or affecting financial, scheduling, methodology, tools, and prepare long and short-range plans for application selection, system development, processes, procedures, and producing methods.
• Act as a liaison to take the project requirements from the client and then translate them into technical requirements.
• Manage the project stakeholders and work with them as a technical point of contact for everything related to cloud engineering.
• Plan, execute, and close projects that meet or exceed client expectations.
• Understand client requirements and project KPIs.
• Implement various development, testing, automation tools, and IT Infrastructure.
• Plan the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Set up the tools and required infrastructure.
• Define and set development, test, release, update, and support the DevSecOps process.
• Troubleshoot the techniques and fix the code bugs.
• Monitor the process during the entire lifecycle for its adherence, updating or creating new processes for improvement, and minimizing the wastage.
• Encourage and build automated processes wherever possible.
• Identify and deploy security measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
• Incident management and root cause analysis.
• Coordination and communication with the team and with clients, both external and internal.
• Select and deploy appropriate CI/CD tools.
• Manage periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the client.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• TS/SCI security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Foundation.
• Cloud Architecture Design: Foundation.
• Cloud Computing: Foundation.
• Have the technical skills to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Skills:
  • AWS Cloud Architecture.
  • AWS Public Cloud.
  • Azure Cloud Services.
  • Cloud Engineering.
  • Enterprise Cloud.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• CompTIA Security +
• AWS Certified Developer Associate or Solution Architect, similar certification in Azure or GCP preferred.
• Certification in one of the CI/CD tools, preferably Gitlab or Jenkins.
• ITIL Certification.