Cloud Engineer/Architect

Job TitleCompany Overview:Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.Join us and make a meaningful impact.Markon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.Description:Markon's Partner company is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer/Architect to support our Intelligence Customer.Responsibilities may include:Recommend the most effective methods of securely configuring new and existing Cloud services in the customer's environment.Recommend rules for detecting and alerting on Cloud misconfigurations.Collaborate with Cloud vendors to include Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Google to review the security features of their cloud service offerings.Assess and recommend Cloud resource and identity policies to enhance security, compliance, and operational efficiency.Develop Cloud configurations to be hosted on GITHUB and available for project teams using Terraform or native cloud vendor scripting services.Consult with customer/clients regarding the most effective methods of securely configuring new and existing Cloud services (across multiple vendors) in the customers environment.Plan, prepare, and execute tests against Cloud services/technologies used to secure systems and reduce cyber risk.Coordinate with stakeholders across the organization to identify and clarify specifications, requirements, and performance measures, leveraging your engineering expertise to document and codify use cases for mission partners and collaborates with service providers to ensure solutions meet the operational needs.Communicate effectively with a variety of business partners and customers.Analyze customer requirements and provide highly innovative technical expertise on cloud computing techniques and related cloud architectures.Identify the vulnerabilities and risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations, particularly with respect to systems processing extremely sensitive data.Define and update Cloud security standards/requirements necessary to minimize the risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations.Assist with establishing an approach to monitoring compliance with specific Cloud security standards of systems in the Cloud.Develop scripts, terraform files, and/or Cloud Development Kits (CDK) to assist project teams with an automated means to implement and validate Cloud configuration standards.Review and analyze Cloud configuration compliance data to inform risk remediation and/or risk mitigation strategies.Maintain current and advanced knowledge of progressive and advancing technology as assigned.Provide expert guidance and leadership to less experienced cloud development personnel.May serve as a task or project leader. (Not a people manager)May consult with executives and customers to deliver complex cloud development solutions.Requirements:Required Experience:

15+ years of related experience.Education:

Technical Training, Certification(s) and/or Degree (Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, etc.)Required Technical Skills:Demonstrated experience with Cloud services vendors (Amazon, Microsoft, Google and/or Oracle).Demonstrated experience with enterprise cybersecurity management platforms.Required Skills and Abilities:Demonstrated experience engineering and deploying IT capabilities.Demonstrated ability to provide triage effectively and independently, and problem resolution for technical issues.Demonstrated record of sound judgment and problem-solving skills necessary to make recommendations to Customer management.Demonstrated working knowledge of information security policies and regulations.Excellent written and oral communication skills.Recognized as a subject matter expert in cloud technology.Demonstrate capacity to develop effective interpersonal relationships; strong analytic and organization skills; self-starting skills; the ability to work effectively and independently, with little direction; ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.Desired Skills:Demonstrated experience with implementation and assessment of security controls that support authorization and accreditation processes.Demonstrated experience supporting the NIST Risk Management Framework.Demonstrated project management experience.Recommended Certifications: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, CCSP, CCSK, CISSP

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