Cloud Engineer III

Overview

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Cloud Engineer III at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this job is to lead and be responsible for designing, implementing, supporting, and monitoring PenFed's emerging cloud environments. This position is a key resource for the implementation strategies in the cloud while driving cloud initiative in high performance grid computing and managing a scalable, continuous-integration architecture.


Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Design, implement and maintain cloud-based services and solutions (AWS)
• Provide technical vision for cloud technologies, and customized solutions to a less complex environments.
• Responsible for the integration of cloud technologies- IaaS, PaaS and Enterprise tools such as services, monitoring, logging and other development tools.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security team in periodic reviews of the cloud security in order to implement strong security practices.
• Use current or new tools to monitor environment including CloudWatch, CloudTrail and other services monitoring tools.
• Create and maintain AWS networking: VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, VPN, Peer-to-Peer, NAT, Gateways, load balancers, IP-tables, Transit Gateways, Security Groups and ACL's
• Write Cloud formation or Terraform scripts for Infrastructure as Code
• Perform AWS Identity Access Management tasks including user accounts, roles and policies management
• Responsible for stability, integrity and efficiency of the infrastructure and information systems that support core functions of the business.
• Accountable for providing escalation support to troubleshoot and maintain production infrastructure and to resolve production issues and outages
• Participate in the planning and design of an enterprise Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Comply with Incident Management and Change Management procedures and reporting practices.
• Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the IT industry as it relates to the technologies identified as primary responsibilities including awareness of new or revised solutions and improved processes.
• Develop and maintain up-to-date baselines for the secure configuration and operations of all in- place systems.
• Assist junior staff in researching technical problems and complex designs in order to develop staff capabilities.
• Participate in on-call 24x7 support as needed in the event of system outage or failure.

Qualifications

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Bachelor's Degree in related field is required.
• In lieu of a degree, combination of education and a minimum of ten (10) years of related work experience is required that provides the necessary skills and knowledge to perform all the essential job functions.
• Minimum five (5) years hands-on experience in the design, development, and implementation in AWS cloud environment (VPC, IAM, AMI, S3, EC2, ELB, RDS, SQS, SNS, Route53 etc.) is required.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in Linux systems administration. Understand AWS/ architectural best practices as well as experience in the use of programming/Scripting languages and Cloud Security.
• Experience with DevOps tools and API Gateways (Apigee, MuleSoft) is a plus.
• Experience deploying and supporting medium to large IaaS, PaaS environments.
• Strong understanding of Network, Compute, Storage, Cloud and End-User technologies.
• Strong understanding of System design and integration with a thorough familiarity with multi- tiered application architecture and public, private, and hybrid cloud technologies.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and multi-tasking skills desired.
• Must be able to present system designs for user approval at formal reviews.
• Strong problem solving and analytic skills.
• Strong communication, documentation, and time management skills.
• Experience using A.I. tools preferred.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will not supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

• AWS: One or more Associate and Professional certifications are required
• Other professional certifications are a plus

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*

Travel

Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may is required.

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