Cloud Engineer

Our Partner is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Our Partner is seeking Multiple levels of Cloud Engineers to assess, design, and develop an agile, DevOps oriented, cloud-centric, requirements driven, autonomously orchestrated architectures and environments to ensure the rigor, consistency, and continued reliability of mission critical environments. This position is for an individual who fundamentally disagrees with the continued use of repetitive manual operational tasks over automated workflows, while trusting mature, automated resources to deploy any given system over manual deployment more accurately. 

Responsibilities

• Work with the Chief Cloud Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer 
• Work to help define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision 
• Lead Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities 
• Interface directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
• Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architecture

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen 
• Active Secret Clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI 
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability 
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. 2 years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
• 8+ years of professional experience in a technology related field 
• 5+ years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous API driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments 
• 2+ years of experience in either AWS or MS Azure 
• Ability to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor 
• Scrum Master, Tech Lead, or Product Owner Experience 
• Experience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levels 
• Ability to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant facts 
• Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
• Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integration 
• Hands on experience in creating or implementing either API driven workflows, event driven automation, autonomous infrastructure or autonomous software processes and workflows 

Desired Skills

• Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level 
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like cloudformation 
• Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby) 
• Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows 
• Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories 
• Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines
• AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience 
• Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures 
• Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects 
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments 
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience 
• Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align 

About Us
For more than 20 years, NewGen Technologies has solved our clients’ toughest IT challenges with integrity, security, and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror, aided the identification of criminals, and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of biometrics.Our team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance. #CJ