Cloud Engineer
Peraton
- Herndon, VA Blacksburg, VA
- $86,000-138,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and develop innovative cloud-based solutions to address specific business demands.
- Manage, install, test, configure, and maintain operating systems and applications to assure maximum availability. This enables a cloud system to run at peak efficiency.
- Design and implement the whole lifecycle functions of the programs required to run and be run on the cloud. This is vast and varied but frequently involves developing the processes, optimization, and risk management tools that a project(s) requires to function properly.
- Minimum of 5-8 years of experience working as a cloud engineer
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, BIT, MIS, or a related field
- Ability to work with internal and external teams to define requirements, specify architectures, complete detailed designs, and oversee implementations.
- Proven technical skills and a strong understanding of cutting-edge cloud solutions and architectures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
- Must be local to the Blacksburg, VA or Herndon, VA offices
- Prior experience working in an Agile software development environment.
- Prior experience working in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and/or VMWare environments.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes
- Experience developing Bash/Python scripts and templates necessary for resource provisioning to occur automatically.
- Experience with Java, Groovy, REST API development, UNIX Shell Scripting
- Experience with web development frameworks, database technologies, web services, and/or web application servers.
- Discovering and implementing industry-standard cloud service offers, as well as processes and standards that ensure the most efficient use of cloud service provider products.
- Prior experience providing mentoring to junior personnel.
- Ability to anticipate problems and take decisive action and an ability to find innovative ways to solve problems.