A top government integrator is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. As part of an Enterprise Cloud Services team, the Lead Cloud Engineer will be responsible for leading the Engineering & Operations team and overseeing the deployment of a scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environment.
***To be considered for this 100% REMOTE position, the qualified professional MUST HOLD or BE ABLE to obtain Public Trust and MUST BE a U.S. citizen.***
Responsibilities:
Lead the cloud engineering and operations team for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
Understand the scope and manage the prioritization of ServiceNow requests, changes, and Jira tasks for provisioning, modifying, troubleshooting, and decommissioning cloud services
Advise and enhance cloud team process improvements using cloud best practices and team standards
Coordinate with team counterparts internal to the cloud services team and with peers leads (eg. OS, database, monitoring teams)
Provide technical guidance and direction to cloud team on provisioning new resources and resolution of infrastructure issues
Provide system monitoring and incident management for cloud environments
Manage operations in cloud environments and ensure the high availability and performance of those environments
Evaluate and operationalize cloud services, tools, and technologies
Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) policies and tools to control user permissions and access to cloud environments.
Monitor Cloud overall health and address/identify issues and address with cloud services team and/or cloud customers to resolve
Qualifications:
12+ years of related work experience
Bachelor's Degree
Strong experience in writing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK) to provision Cloud Infrastructure
Experience leading a Cloud team that performs the provisioning of Cloud Infrastructure resources and operational support of provisioned resources
Experience with a breadth of Cloud Infrastructure resources
Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, and similar toolsets for workflow management
Experience with SolarWinds, Splunk, and similar tools for logging and monitoring
Desired Skills:
5+ years of experience in Cloud Technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or other Public Cloud Services with an emphasis on AWS experience
2+ years of experience with Python and/or similar Clou Scripting Language
At least 1 Cloud certification at the associate level or higher in AWS