BT-497 – Cloud Engineer
Skill Level: Senior
Location: Chantilly, VA (fully on-site, no remote option available)
**Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.**
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineering with strong Cloud Engineering experience to design, secure, and optimize mission-critical cloud solutions. This role blends system engineering, secure cloud architecture, virtualization technologies, and modern development practices. The ideal candidate has experience operating in classified AWS environments, automating with Python/Java/JavaScript, and communicating complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders.
- Identify technical, CI, and operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and recommend mitigations
- Study the feasibility and vulnerability of new technical capabilities and analyze gaps
- Assess emerging and commercial off the shelf technologies in support of operational requirements and applications and perform technical trade studies to determine recommendation
- Evaluate, validate, and analyze technical development compliance with stated requirements;
- Integrate, test, verify, and validate end-to-end systems
- Develop diagrams, flow charts, and other system engineering-related documentation to problem-solve, identify improvements, create standards, and facilitate cross-organizational collaboration
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Study capability feasibility and vulnerability studies and gap analyses
- Apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor's project management and software development frameworks
- Maintain the cloud solutions according to SLA or requirement specifications
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; Minimum of 3 years with PhD including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- Demonstrated experience managing AWS services including C2S, S3, EC2, Load balancers, ECR, subnets, autoscaling groups and users/groups, Lambda, MSK, SageMaker, Docker, Kafka, KMS and
- Demonstrated experience with Security controls including managing security groups, network ACLs (Role Based Access Control (RBAC) / Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC))
- Demonstrated proficiency operating in Unix/ Linux-based OS
- Experience writing and testing Python, Java, Typescript
- Experience implementing and operating systems with Auditing tools, Enterprise Application Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solution (OAuth), role-based access controls (RBAC)
Desired Skills
- Agile
- JAVA, PHP apps in Windows
- HTML and Bash Scripting
- Cypher query language or Neo4j
- Database administration
- Terraform
- Stand up and maintain stand-alone server for LLM training