Cloud SME

Cloud Subject Matter Expert Assist the PEO Management staff, Program Managers and Team members as a subject matter expert on cloud engineering, architecture and management. Responsibilities Manage the overall Mission Domain cloud architecture, deployments, and operations across the compendium of AGENCY Mission Domain-related programs, projects, pilots and initiatives. Work with the AGENCY PEO team to manage and plan migrations and/or transitions to, from, and between cloud environments. Coordinate cloud activities between AGENCY PEO and other organizations to ensure alignment with NGA Tech Strategies, standards and practices. Coordinate with external entities to ensure AGENCY Mission Domain cloud efforts are supported at the larger mission / enterprise level. Maintain awareness of cloud services, solutions and approved offerings available to NGA. Assist AGENCY PEO Program Managers with cloud architecture planning per program in coordination with the AGENCY PEO Engineering Management staff. Evaluate the AGENCY Mission Domain cloud services, architecture and environments to identify opportunities to improve costs, operational efficiencies and performance. Produce and manage cloud‑related artifacts, specifications and requirements as required by AGENCY PEO. Provide guidance to establish items such as new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Databases (RDS). Perform evaluations to determine the best cloud offerings for individual system deployments. Work with the business office, program manager and product owners to establish development, test and/or operations budgets for projects running in the cloud. Provide Program Managers with monthly evaluations and recommendations for their cloud efficiency at the service instance level. Request new services from the NGA Cloud PMO for services that are unavailable but beneficial to AGENCY Mission Domain. Brief internal and external stakeholders to the AGENCY PEO. Establish and implement cost/spend tracking and budgets for each cloud environment and project/office. Coordinate AGENCY Mission Domain cloud transitions with other organizations to ensure mission continuity during system changeover. Assist PMs with onboarding new vendors and transitioning systems/services to, from or between clouds. Produce and manage AGENCY Mission Domain Cloud guidance, standards and procedures. Establish and manage AGENCY Mission Domain Cloud evaluations and processes. Establish and manage AGENCY Mission Domain Cloud metrics. Maintain and update the status of individual AGENCY Mission Domain cloud entities. Recommend actions and steps for AGENCY PEO contractors regarding cloud activities and monitor implementation status. Provide AGENCY Mission Domain and FG related requirements to the NGA Cloud team, DevCorps and other cloud/service providers. Support AGENCY Mission Domain outage investigation and resolution. Provide recommendations to improve the AGENCY Mission Domain DevOps process. Provide cloud‑related documentation as requested by AGENCY PEO. Create and prioritize cloud transition plans and schedules. Identify and document Weekly Activity Report (WAR) inputs. Provide briefings, briefing materials and other reporting activities as required by AGENCY PEO. Establish and implement cost budgets in each cloud environment per project/office. Work with AGENCY PEO Security to ensure Authorization to Operate (ATO) is obtained and maintained, and vulnerabilities are addressed. Required Skills / Education / Experience 2 years of experience working with the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) community and its functions, understanding management processes and communication across all levels of the organizational hierarchy. 2 years of experience deploying and managing systems/services within Amazon Web Services. Years of experience identifying and documenting cloud requirements and coordinating with cloud providers to address those requirements. 2 years of experience implementing, configuring and/or managing cloud development pipelines and automated deployment processes. Desired Skills / Education / Experience Experience working with other IC cloud environments provided by Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM. Experience working with DevSecOps tools such as CHEF, SONAR Cube, puppet, Jenkins, Kubernetes/Docker, etc. Experience working in a classified cloud environment. Clearance

TS/SCI