Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Clearance)

Chainbridge Solutions

Washington, DC

Full-Time

Job Description

Description

Chainbridge Solutions is a dynamic software development company that relies on cloud technologies to deliver high-quality applications. In support of this objective, we are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our growing team. As a Cloud Engineer, you will work under a team of architects and engineers to support a critical cloud migration program.

Key Responsibilities

Works with Chainbridge Partner team to support cloud migration efforts for a federal client.
Manage Chainbridge Solutions’ internal and customer-based application architectures.
Provision and oversee AWS environments for development teams and customer installations.
Gather middleware requirements, configurations, and support development of infrastructure as code hosting solutions.
Perform basic Linux administration tasks including patching, monitoring, starting and stopping services.
Support software releases for customer sites outside normal business hours, handling all application server changes or actions.
Offer AWS and Middleware architecture guidance to customers and Chainbridge Solutions team members.
Migrates a large applications from an on-prem environment to a cloud environment. Communicates with senior leadership on migration status and advises on best practices for managing the application in a cloud environment.
Works with JIRA, AWS, DevOps, or equivalent technologies to manage application software requirements, user stories, test cases, and test defects.
Configures and utilizes cloud-native services to provision and manage infrastructure resources such as, but not limited to:
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code), including routine environment standups.
- Terraform, CloudFormation or similar service that allows description and provisioning of all the infrastructure resources used within the GovCloud environment.
- Cloud Monitoring tools such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Watch.
- EC2, EBS (Elastic Block Storage), Auto-scaling, S3 Storage, S3 Glacier Storage, and Simple notification servers or equivalent.

Experience and Skill Requirements

US Citizen
Holds current Top Secret Clearance
1+ years of cloud engineering experience
Basic experiencen within and ability to learn the AWS ecosystem
AWS certifications preferred.
Excellent communication skills.
Must be able to work onsite in Washington DC
Security first mindset with experience with applying security best practices to AWS environments including hardening and patching operating systems.
Basic experience with infrastructure as code using terraform and/or ansible.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Frequently remain in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time looking at a computer screen.
Continuous verbal and written communication with others to exchange information.
Continuous repetitive movements that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
Comprehension - Must continuously be able to understand direction and adhere to established procedures.
Organization - Must continuously be able to gather and classify information.
Reasoning and Decision Making - Must continuously use logic to analyze and interpret information and prioritize.