Cloud Solution Engineer, Jr. - US Citizenship Req'd

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

ViaTrie LLC (ViaTrie) has an immediate need for a Junior Cloud Solution Engineer for a project supporting our client, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Innovation Lab to build and expand services available in their primarily Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem. ViaTrie will be supporting GAO with the execution of cloud capabilities. 

This is a 100% remote position; however, you must be a U.S. citizen (no dual citizenships, Green cards or H1-Bs) based in the U.S. and able to obtain a Federal Government Security Clearance, and be willing and able to work core business hours 8 AM – 5 PM (Eastern) M-F.

Primary Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be part of a cross-functional team and will possess strong analytic experience, solid cloud technical skills and excellent communication skills to support cloud planning and implementation functions across an enterprise-wide cloud services program. 

Our team is creating cloud capabilities across GAO. As a cloud engineer, we need you to create cloud-based technical architectures and cost estimates and build out environments to satisfy the GAO Innovation Lab’s objectives. GAO aims to modernize its IT solutions to realize the benefits of new design approaches, features, and functionalities like modular builds, loose coupling, micro services, containers, cybersecurity resilience, access controls, and disaster recovery. Modern solutions must be future-ready, adaptable, resilient, responsive to changing business needs, and be able to shift away from on premises infrastructure to cloud architecture, which may include hybrid cloud services.

You will work with the GAO Innovation Lab’s team to analyze solution options and plan cloud migration and build activities. We aim for high-touch, transparent, standards-based and compliance solutions for our customers. Our program includes projects that vary from engagement to engagement as we research current environments to propose new technical solutions and architectures. Our solutions include both large- and small-application portfolios with a goal to design with DevSecOps paradigms in mind. 

A sampling of job activities include:

· Conduct IT services architecture planning and engineering necessary to design and deploy GAO Innovation Lab capabilities.

· Create and execute migration plans for mission-critical software applications from on-prem to the cloud.

· Assess and document the alignment of on-prem applications/services to GAO AWS environments.

· Work cross-functionally across GAO groups to identify impacts in processes and business value for enterprise approaches, developing implementation plans and success objectives. 

· Develop baseline analyses of IT system and infrastructure requirements, demand, and total cost associated with IT commodities and services (including, but not limited to, networks, data centers, and applications). 

· Develop IT solutions, alternative analyses and business cases.

· Conduct IT services architecture planning and engineering necessary to design and deploy GAO enterprise IT solutions.

· Network engineering experience, specifically with Palo Alto.

· Work cross-functionally across customer and GAO groups to identify impacts in processes and business value for enterprise approaches, developing implementation plans and success objectives. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related discipline.
• · Experience designing, implementing, and operating Federal cloud ecosystems in AWS a must.

· 4+ years of experience with cloud architecture/engineering design/support, with a minimum of 2 years of experience with AWS. (This is a Jr. level position)

· Experience working in and analyzing cloud-based environments.

· AWS cloud networking experience.

· Experience in system engineering/administration of Linux Operating Systems, with an emphasis on RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 

· Knowledge of managing operations for cloud or SaaS environments.

· Ability to develop cloud technical operational procedures and manage team execution of procedures.

· Ability to analyze processes, gaps, resolutions, and share lessons learned.

· Infrastructure as code experience – creation and execution of scripting in Python and CloudFormation templates.

· Experience working within Agile lifecycle – specifically SAFe.

· Customer facing soft skills.

· Must be able to obtain a Federal Government Security Clearance and pass a Credit Check

Preferred Qualifications

· Good working knowledge of and experience with FISMA and implementing FedRAMP. standards and compliance requirements (NIST).

· Hands-on experience in designing, developing and the implementation of architectural and data deliverables in an enterprise cloud environment for a large-scale Federal government agency.

• Experience with cloud migration projects for custom applications.
• Experience with application management and providing high availability and resilient solutions using methods, including clustering or failover.
• Experience with Git-based repositories
• Expert working knowledge of the Microsoft Office product suites. 
• Experience with cloud operations and management best practices for optimized, cost-effective cloud deployments.
• Good interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate effectively, combined with excellent written and oral communication skills in English.

About Us

About Us

ViaTrie is a Woman-owned and operated small, growing company that presents top-tier consulting experience, proven methodologies, and sophisticated technical tools to support the mission of Federal Government departments and agencies. Forming partnerships built on trust and transparency, we partner with government organizations to create human-centric, mission focused, socially responsible and technology powered innovations. Our solutions reimagine organizations, transform security, and advance society. Our sustainable business transformation approach starts with our purpose and values and leverages our consulting expertise and unwavering focus on innovation to create a more secure and resilient world. 

We offer a customer/employee centric culture combined with a comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefits package which includes medical/dental/vision, company paid life/long term/short-term disability, 401-K, PTO and 11 paid federal holidays.

ViaTrie is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.