Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud

About This Role

This Infrastructure Engineer role involves planning, designing, assembling, and overseeing program systems for a federal government client. The position supports both Operations & Maintenance (O&M) and new development efforts, focusing on improving system performance and guiding engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing cloud resources, determine necessary changes to improve system performance, and make recommendations
• Provide guidance to engineers and developers based on best practices to ensure infrastructure supports fluctuating demands
• Work with government IT operations and other teams to develop strategies and action plans for implementing upgrades and integrations to program applications

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship
• Ability to obtain a public trust clearance
• 8+ years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment (or 10+ without a Bachelor's)
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Excellent active listening skills
• Ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical, executive-level government officials
• Ability to problem-solve and develop solutions to complex business needs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment with a Bachelor's degree, or 10+ years without a Bachelor's Degree.

Nice to Have

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
• Experience with DevSecOps pipeline tools (configuration management, JIRA, automated testing, CI/CD, blue green deployments, branching strategy)
• Experience designing and implementing Cloud-based AWS solutions
• Applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile solution designs
• Experience designing logical and network diagrams
• Experience migrating applications from AWS Commercial Cloud to FedRamp Approved Gov Cloud
• Experience outlining evaluation benchmarks for system performance assessments
• Experience implementing technical architecture standards based on industry best practices
• Experience engaging stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating to minimum viable product
• Providing advice to project teams around technical solutions, best practices, and efficiencies
• Reviewing environments to detect deficiencies, recommending, planning, and implementing solutions for improvement
• Providing leadership for strategic planning or complex problem solving for programs and projects
• Performing functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships
• Leading the development, implementation of robust, quantitative technology evaluation processes
• Documenting performance criteria and testing strategies, quantifying results, trade-offs and recommendations
• Reviewing design documents to ensure industry and Government standards compliance
• Presenting architecture design documents to the client and revising based on client feedback
• Maintaining awareness and expertise of latest cloud and infrastructure, orchestration, and automation visualization technologies
• Interacting and collaborating with specialists to successfully migrate applications and data to the cloud
• Driving innovation and improving performance of the applications in scope
• Providing recommendations and implementing ways to modernize technology

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits