Automation / Cloud Services Job at Stahl Companies in Camp Pendleton

STAHL Companies provides the Program Management for its Channel of Commercial Technology companies in Government that consist of Small Businesses and New Technology start-ups.

STAHL advocates for policies that can improve government services and maintain our government's competitive advantage, by bringing more technology into government programs.

STAHL Companies advocates on behalf of our nation's innovative, new technology and small businesses looking to work with the U.S. government. We do this by aligning the voice of our small business members with advocacy for change in federal policy that will make the government market more accessible to small businesses and the commercial technology ecosystem.

The Channel's founding Technical Board Members include former government leaders and IT executives passionate about bringing best-of-breed technology to the government.

Successful Stahl Companies employees possess the following traits:

An ability to get things done: You are persistent, resourceful, results-oriented, and action-oriented. You constantly plan ahead and foresee issues before they occur.

Analytical: In order to improve your comprehension of the market and the demands and problems of your clients, you have good analytical abilities and are at ease reading quantitative data.

Creative mind-set: You are able to solve problems creatively and swiftly adjust. You possess a thorough understanding of product management principles and the ability to apply them when analysing data and making recommendations.

Emotional Intelligence: You have a strong sense of self and excellent perception of how important relationships function. You are upbeat, sympathetic, adaptable, and inquisitive. Your genuineness, warmth, and competence help you win the respect of your co-workers.

Trustworthy: You have a strong sense of morality, principles, and purpose. You are trustworthy because of how you conduct yourself. You are a living example of the company's values.

·         Implement automation across all layers - infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, testing, and operation. 

·         Retool infrastructure to provide an agile foundation that provides joint infrastructure management and automation framework. 

·         Interface directly with staff members within the organization to discuss and assess compliance with IT policies, standards and procedures and suggest opportunities for improvement. 

·         Build automation to configure applications, networks, and services, in a production, testing, and development environment. 

·         Partner with infrastructure teams to identify and automate processes to reduce technical debt, set up CI/CD pipelines, and optimize build/testing/deployment times. 

·         Work with testing and development teams throughout the testing life cycle ensuring timely integration. 

·         Commit all automation code and supporting files to source control (git and GitLab). 

·         Train operations team members to use the automation the team builds.

·         Configure and administer cloud technologies in hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP among others.

·         Configure and administer cloud services in an on-premises platforms (e.g. Azure Stack family of systems, Amazon Snow family of systems, etc.)

 

·         Documented network and system administration experience

·         Documented virtualization technology experience (e.g. VMWare, Linux, Windows, etc.)

·         Experience with source control using git and GitHub/GitLab repositories. 

·         Experience leading medium to large projects by bringing together the right perspectives, identifying roadblocks, and integrating feedback from clients and team members. 

·         7+ years of experience in Infrastructure IT Operations. 

·         5+ years of software automation and development experience. 

·         2+ years scripting language experience. 

·         Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I or Level II certification. 

·         Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation. 

·         Cloud Computing certifications (e.g. Azure Administrator, AWS Associate Level Cert, etc.). 

·         Experience with on-premises cloud technologies (e.g. Azure Stack, Amazon Snow, etc.)

·         Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 

·         Experience in IT Operations in relation to Systems & Network Architecture, and AI/ML environments. 

·         Previous experience in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) or DevOps role. 

·         Experience in distributed systems design and integration architectures of business applications using micro services, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructures. 

·         Experience or familiarity with either Amazon Web Services (AWS) features or management, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Azure. 

·         Experience in creating and running Ansible playbooks, both CLI (Ansible Core) and AWX/Tower/AAP (Ansible Automation Platform). 

·         Python scripting, including scripts that call APIs like AWS and ServiceNow. 

·         Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-a-code platform. 

·         Strong passion for quality assurance in development, including experience in finding, investigating, and fixing bugs. 

·         Excellent communication skills. 

     Implement automation across all layers - infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, testing, and operation. 

·         Retool infrastructure to provide an agile foundation that provides joint infrastructure management and automation framework. 

·         Interface directly with staff members within the organization to discuss and assess compliance with IT policies, standards and procedures and suggest opportunities for improvement. 

·         Build automation to configure applications, networks, and services, in a production, testing, and development environment. 

·         Partner with infrastructure teams to identify and automate processes to reduce technical debt, set up CI/CD pipelines, and optimize build/testing/deployment times. 

·         Work with testing and development teams throughout the testing life cycle ensuring timely integration. 

·         Commit all automation code and supporting files to source control (git and GitLab). 

·         Train operations team members to use the automation the team builds.

·         Configure and administer cloud technologies in hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP among others.

·         Configure and administer cloud services in an on-premises platforms (e.g. Azure Stack family of systems, Amazon Snow family of systems, etc.)