Cloud Engineer

Overview:

Location: Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO

Security Clearance Required:

Active TS

(SCI eligibility)

clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration *This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.*

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space.

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Cloud Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.

Responsibilities:

What you get to do every day:

• The Cloud Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment.

• Must be able to support data collection from a large, complex server and network infrastructure and user base

• Must possess a strong work ethic, be self-directed, and be a detail-oriented professional

• Must be willing to learn and adapt to new, cutting-edge technologies

• Must be willing to document work and participate in the customer's change procedures

• Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised

• Must be a team player; willing to both share knowledge and learn from others to ensure the team's success Designs and defines system architecture for new or existing computer systems.

• Experience with hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-VSpecific Duties and Responsibilities

• Architect, build, maintain Hadoop, and other cloud infrastructure

• Apply Configuration Management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation

• Develop and direct the development of content for a complex and growing infrastructure. This includes use cases for Dashboards, Active Channels, Reports, Rules, Filters, Trends, and Active Lists

• Provide guidance to security analyst and network engineering staff

• Working Closely with C&A Team to maintain Security requirements for Operation of IEC systems

• Support all aspects of NCE's Security Information and Event Management initiative.

• Supporting the establishment, enhancement, and continual improvement of an integrated set of correlation rules, alerts, searches, reports, and responses.

• Coordinating and conducting event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring activities for the customer's system.

• Perform routine equipment checks and preventative maintenance

• Performing systems hardening to DoD Standards

• Maintaining up to date documentation of designs/configurations

• Create shell and perl scripts to facilitate automated tasks

• Work with other Service Providers to support areas of common interest

• Working with software and hardware vendors

• Solaris systems engineering experience

• Cloud platforms

• Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.

• Knowledge of the associated hardware, software, and equipment

• Professional certification in one or more specific technologies may be required, depending on job assignment.

Qualifications:

What skills do you need?

Clearance:

Active TS

(SCI eligibility)

clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration *This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.*

Education/Experience:

• Requires Bachelor's Degree in the IT field, related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 5+ years of related systems engineering experience.

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to use problem solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues.

• Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, Rackspace

• Experience with private clouds such as VMWare, OpenStack

• Experience with Hadoop

• Experience as a system architect/administrator/operator in a production environment

• Knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and/or SAAS cloud technologies.

• Knowledge of network technologies (MPLS, routing protocols, forwarding), common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

• Strong background in Unix, Solaris, or Windows servers

• Scripting skills

• Intelligence Community Experience preferred

What you can expect from us:

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses

• You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community

• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!

• Compensation is unique to each candidate and

  compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.