Contractor Cloud Services Engineer

We are hiring an experienced Cloud Service Engineer to work for us as our direct, W2 salaried or hourly employee to join our team. You will:

• Responsible for the day-to-day procedures, process, and operations of client s core IT systems in the cloud, utilizing a DevSecOps framework.
• Create and update procedures and standards to build and manage cloud systems and will serve as the escalation point for high-priority production issues.
• Automation of security configurations, manual processes and procedures, and provisioning and configuration of cloud resources is required.
• The use of industry DevSecOps best practices and regulatory policies defined by the organization and its partners.
• May access Federal Tax Information. (Background checks requirements, per IRS Publication 1075, apply.)

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7 years of overall experience in IT infrastructure (server, storage, and networking).
• 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Must have demonstrated experience in the following:

1. Advanced understanding of networking concepts and services, including:
   • Firewalls
   • load balancers
   • routing
   • DNS
   • DHCP
   • Security
   • VPNs
2. Advanced understanding of:
   • connectivity troubleshooting
   • Latency
   • IP addresses
   • Ping
   • trace routes.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift or other containerization platform.
• Experience with Cloudflare or similar Content Distribution Network (CDN).
• Experience with the Nutanix virtualization platform.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure As Code, DevSecOps concepts, and GitHub, or similar versioning system(s).
• Experience with Agile processes.
• Experience with administering Red Hat Linux and Microsoft server environments.
• Experience and general understanding of object-oriented coding (Java, Python, .Net, etc.) or scripting.
• Experience as an administrator in a Cloud environment on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• CompTIA, Microsoft, or other industry recognized certifications in cloud, security, or servers.
  • Must provide copies of all valid certifications
• Experience in the government and/or health care fields with exposure to marketing, public relations, public affairs, or closely allied disciplines.
• ITIL foundations certification
• Familiarity with the following Software and Services:
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• Azure Commercial cloud
• Azure Government cloud
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Red Hat Linux
• Red Hat Ansible
• Red Hat Fuse
• Red Hat 3Scale
• Microsoft Windows
• Entra ID
• PrismaCloud
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Palo Alto Panorama
• Terraform
• NGINX
• Jira
• Confluence
• SolarWinds Orion
• Rundeck
• Kubernetes
• Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK)
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Cerberus SFTP
• Azure Data Factory
• Bash
• Python
• PowerShell
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Cisco Switches/Routers
• Datadog
• SumoLogic
• New Relic