Hybrid Cloud Engineer – Top Secret/SCI

at SUNAYU

• Job title: Cloud Engineer – Top Secret/SCI
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $126,000 - $220,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cloud, EC2, Kubernetes, Linux, OpenShift, Perl, Python, SaltStack, TypeScript, Unix
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bethesda, United States

About the role

• Cloud Engineer at Sunayu, LLC responsible for cloud solution management and engineering collaboration for federal projects. Requires active Top Secret clearance and extensive cloud experience.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for technical duties such as infrastructure design, creation, maintenance, and support associated with cloud computing.
• Work closely with our Cloud Architect, Solution Architects, Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, and Operations Engineering/Manager as well as Government counterparts to perform and manage our cloud solution.
• Collaborate with our engineering and infrastructure teams to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the program.
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Employ exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Build and design web services in the cloud.
• Design and implement cloud-based platforms throughout the program.
• Coordinate with DTP team to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.
• Assist with monitoring & reporting technical variances; facilitate resolution of technical issues that adversely impact successful product delivery or total system cost.
• Assist with identifying and supporting external dependencies where needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience with 12+ years in systems engineering or other relevant field.
• Master’s degree with 10+ years’ experience.
• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
• Experience with Commercial Cloud Services (C2S).
• Knowledge of classified environment’s security enclave.
• Experience with cloud-based services, preferably AWS, for enterprise applications.
• Cloud Admin Skills in AWS -- ec2, elb/alb, s3, efs, vpc, aws cli, cloud theory.
• Experience with container deployment platforms such as Kubernetes, Openshift.
• Experience with SecDevOps and CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience working with Linux operating system.
• Knowledge of web services: API, REST.
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols.
• Extensive experience with open-source technology, software development and system engineering.
• Experience developing basic tooling and scripting: UNIX shell, Python, Perl or similar.
• IaC coding scripting (CDK/Cloud formation preferred).
• Salt (preferred) or some other config management tool (Ansible preferred).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects.
• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.