Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer TS/SCI On-site Springfield or St. Louis ALTA IT is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our team to support our intelligence customer activities onsite in Springfield, VA, or St. Louis, MO. The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings. SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Build and Maintain Platform as a Service Offering using RedHat OpenShift Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc) Produce detailed documentation Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS Maintain System in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID Automate and optimize service deployments WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Active TS / SCI Clearance and eligibility to obtain a Poly. Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud based providers Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker) Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services Strong Troubleshooting skills Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus Strong communication skills DESIRED SKILLS: Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt or Terraform Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMWare) Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development DESIRED CERTIFICATIONS: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience 3+ years IT experience 3+ years experience with Platform as a Service Offerings (e.g. RedHat OpenShift #M2