Cloud Engineer
SteamPunk

Job Info

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Overview

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, an organization's data has never been a more important aspect in achieving mission and business goals. Our data exploitation experts work with our clients to support their mission and business goals by creating and executing a comprehensive data strategy using the best technology and techniques, given the challenge.

At Steampunk, our goal is to build and execute a data strategy for our clients to coordinate data collection and generation, to align the organization and its data assets in support of the mission, and ultimately to realize mission goals with the strongest effectiveness possible.

For our clients, data is a strategic asset. They are looking to become a facts-based, data-driven, customer-focused organization. To help realize this goal, they are leveraging visual analytics platforms to analyze, visualize, and share information. At Steampunk you will design and develop solutions to high-impact, complex data problems, working with the best and data practitioners around. Our data exploitation approach is tightly integrated with Human-Centered Design and DevSecOps.
Contributions

• Responsible for the design, implementation, migration, and testing of cloud-based solutions that meet customer objectives for enhancing infrastructure and automation capabilities.
• Identifies and leverages best practices implementing architectures and systems in the major cloud providers (GCP, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), etc).
• Mentors database engineers and administrators, as well as data scientists, architects, and analysts on best practices and service utilization.
• Utilizes cloud tools (such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc) to standardize, secure, and automate infrastructure deployment and management activities.
• Engineers and integrates varying systems in a hybrid cloud environment, to include installation, operations, maintenance, documentation, and disaster recovery of integrated systems.
• Deploys a multi-layer integrated system leveraging automation and containerization - including cloud-based databases and data services.
• Demonstrates and exercises operational rigor, documentation of steps, backup of artifacts, validation through unit testing and comparison, and restoration of changes.
• Participates in Agile team structure to develop and deploy architectural components and services, application code, patches and configuration changes, and integration capabilities.
• Improves security posture by configuring and deploying access controls, monitoring and logging, baseline images (such as Amazon Machine Images (AMI)), networking, deployment and compliance automation for both Linux and Windows workloads in the cloud.
• Provides strategic and engineering guidance to customer, program team, and project managers regarding technology evaluation, planning, and implementation.
• Develops technology roadmaps, providing technical advice and develop solutions to address customer requirements.
• Conducts Engineering sessions, develops and refines activity sequences and level of effort estimates for project managers as requested to develop project schedules.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience performing systems engineering and architecture (with heavy emphasis on cloud)
• 3+ years of experience with cloud service implementations using industry best practices
• 3+ years of experience in implementing cloud automation with application deployment
• Experience in hybrid cloud architecture, integration, and deployment
• Experience integrating varying infrastructure and business application systems in a hybrid cloud environment; to include installation, operations, maintenance, documentation, and disaster recovery
• Experience deploying multi-layer integrated systems, leveraging automation and containerization
• Experience developing Architecture and Design documentation, implementation and test plans, SOPs, etc.
• Experience using Agile and DevSecOps methods and techniques required
• Must have, or be eligible to obtain, Government security clearance minimally at the Public Trust level
• Must meet U.S. residency requirements
• Recognized certification in one or more of the major CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCS) required
• A Bachelor's Degree is required.
• A combination of experience and education exceeding the degree/education requirements may be considered based on demonstrated experience and certification(s).
• A graduate degree in a related field is desired.

About steampunk

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers - and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.

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