Cloud System Integrator

Summary

CTC Group is seeking a Cloud System Integrator to support cloud infrastructure modernization, migration, and operational sustainment for mission-critical systems. This role designs, implements, and maintains secure, scalable cloud environments while supporting Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Locations: Annapolis Junction / Ft. Meade

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting modernization, migration, roadmaps, and operational cloud environments.
• Ensure cloud systems are designed, maintained, and governed according to best practices, security standards, and organizational requirements.
• Build reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using tools such as Helm Charts, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and related technologies.
• Establish and enforce development standards for creating, maintaining, and improving Infrastructure as Code.
• Continuously monitor infrastructure and system health using logging, alerting, and performance monitoring tools.
• Identify infrastructure issues and implement solutions that improve efficiency, reliability, scalability, and operational performance.
• Develop strategies for failure recovery, backup, high availability, disaster recovery, and cloud service resiliency.
• Support cost optimization initiatives, including tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling, usage analysis, and cost reporting.
• Contribute to cloud architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, performance metrics, and knowledge transfer for internal teams.
• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and recommend enhancements to improve existing systems and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
  • Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Proven progressive responsibility and experience with provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of container and platform workloads, including Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, or GKE.
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar platforms.
• Experience responding to incidents and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking, security, service limits, DNS, routing, and VPN environments.
• Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience managing secrets and key management using tools such as KMS, KeyVault, Secret Manager, certificates, and rotation policies.
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance through tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling, and usage or cost reporting.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.

Level 2 Requirements

• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.

Pay Information
The final salary may be influenced by various factors, such as location, labor categories, experience, education, and/or certifications. CTC also provides a variety of benefits as well as opportunities for continuous education and development. 
The estimated salary range for this position is $140,000 - $165,000.

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Why CTC Group?

We recognize that successful partnerships are based on open and direct communication, mutual respect, and the ability to adapt to evolving capabilities. Our cleared employees bring decades of experience supporting customers in the Intelligence and Defense communities. We specialize in providing engineering, technical, operational support, and training services to Federal government, and Mission Operations.

CTC Group provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to, Health/Dental/Vision, 401k, PTO and holiday pay, disability and life insurance.

CTC Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, physical disability, genetic information, mental disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner status, gender (including sex stereotyping), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related) or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal and state laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.