• Job Description

  Req#: 51547117

  Description

  Cloud Engineer - Senior Principal

  SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer Senior Principal role in support of our Department of Transportation (DOT) contract for EITSS Infrastructure support. This is currently a hybrid role where the potential candidate will be required to work at DOT HQ in Washington, DC two days a week. Note that the requirement could change to a full five days. As a Cloud engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.

  Job Duties:

  • Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
  • Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
  • Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
  • Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
  • Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
  • Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including:
    • Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
    • AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53

  Qualifications

  Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

  • 12+ years experience in information technology with 8+ years of recent hands-on experience deploying/configuring workloads within AWS OR Azure
  • Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
  • Extensive experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including CloudFormation and Terraform
  • Good understanding of DevOps best practices and experience working with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory
  • Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters
  • Strong experience troubleshooting enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows
  • Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
  • Professional Architect Certification in AWS OR Azure

  Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust

  
  Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
  SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
  
  Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

• About the company

  SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and IT markets.

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