Job Description
Job Title : Cloud Engineer - R1012489
Location : Remote
Duration : 25+ Months Contract
Pay Rate : $60/hr. - $65/hr. on W2
Industry Background: Comm, Media, & Technology
Custom Skill Requirements:
- Cloud Engineer
- AWS infrastructure
- Terraform IaC
- Linux/Windows
- Splunk
- XSOAR
- Ansible
Screening Questions:
- Do you have strong technical hands-on knowledge of AWS infrastructure, Teraform IaC, Linux, Windows, Splunk, XSOAR, Ansible?
- Do you have experience with cloud containers and/or Kubernetes security best practices?
- Do you have an architecture certification?
- Do you have experience working on FedRamp compliant projects?
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Support engineer for customers, as well as the more junior members of the team.
- Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments, including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the CSP ecosystem.
- Technical expertise across multiple technical domains including cloud computing, security, identity and access management and IT infrastructure.
- Strong technical knowledge on AWS Infrastructure & security services (EC2, ELB, Guardduty, Config, Inspector, Security Hub, RDS, Route53, S3, vpc, vpn, tgw, cloudwatch, cloudtrail, eventbridge, etc.).
- Hands on experience in terraform IaC deployments and ability to implement security automation.
- Strong experience working on enterprise security solutions such as WAF, IPS, DDOS, and SIEM.
- Good technical experience with products like Splunk enterprise security, Tenable Nessus, Palo Alto firewall, Cortex XSOAR.
- Cloud security knowledge in the areas of CSPM, Endpoint security solutions and Vulnerability Management.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and processes, and CI/CD systems.
- Experience with cloud containers and/or Kubernetes security best practices.
- Deploy/Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets.
- Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints.
- Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls.
- Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation.
- Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed.
- Architecture certification (AWS preferable, Google, Azure) from a major cloud platform.
- Information Security Certification is a plus: ISO 27001, CISSP or CISM or another equivalent.
- Experience working on FedRamp compliant projects is a plus.
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model, supporting external customers.
- Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and GCP optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure, Networking, Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform.
- Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB, GitHub, Jenkins).
- Can work autonomously, deliver with minimal supervision from a set of requirements.
- Prior experience with Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations.
- Hands on Terraform experience.
- Possession of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working in Federal or State government environments.
- Ability to function in an agile-based environment and provide good daily feedback on team stand-up call.
- In depth knowledge of UNIX/Linux and Windows Environment.
- End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS).
- Good written and verbal English communication.
- Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures).
- Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud).
- Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred, DataDog, Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.).
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc).
- Other Open-Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.).
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, Part time, Internship, Seasonal work, Remote work,