Junior Cloud Architect

We are pleased to announce contingent openings for Junior Cloud Architects who will join our Digital Engineering Department in Huntsville, AL and become part of our rapidly growing technology company operating in Federal marketspaces. You will be part of a team known for building cutting-edge, secure, and reliable solutions that empower our customers to achieve their goals efficiently and effectively. Our Digital Engineering team plays a pivotal role in this mission, and we are seeking talented and passionate software professionals to join our ranks. Responsibilities: Assess technical agility, stability, and capability through the utilization of cloud computing technologies and services. Maximize architectural framework concepts of microservices to enable autonomous application evolution. Deliver system and infrastructure capabilities that are scalable, secure, resilient, and maximized in terms of data sharing and exploitation. Have experience utilizing various CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab and GitLab Runner, and Artifactory to support cloud architectures across AWS unclassified and classified enclaves, with a CI/CD pipeline to support deployment of services to various enclaves. Have experience deploying and orchestrating Docker containers in cloud environments. Provide system platform management (Kubernetes) to include monitoring, troubleshooting of preproduction and production environments. Have experience with various air-gapped Government unclassified and classified AWS region managed services, such as Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and Lambda Manage day-to-day operations of cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting issues, responding to incidents, ensuring backups are operating correctly, and ensuring cost optimization. Monitor cloud environments to prevent unforeseen charges and ensure that AWS CloudWatch or equivalent service is activated, and billing alerts and alarms are enabled based on and triggered by government defined metrics. Support the migration of IT capabilities to the cloud requiring advanced knowledge of cloud infrastructure, security, networking, business analytics, and process optimization skills. Support Government cloud environments design including the selection of appropriate cloud services, defining network architecture, optimization for workload and capacity needs, and configuring security protocols to create and maintain the most efficient service while mee