Cloud DevOps Engineer II
KBR
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Architect, design, develop, and implement cost efficient AWS Cloud solutions
- Participate in delivery of new service offerings, working closely with development team to deliver low latency, high performance applications
- Assist in the creation of blueprints for future Cloud topologies (AWS services and interfaces) that minimize costs while maximizing performance, reliability, and manageability
- Use tools to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities
- Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures
- Create automated approaches and scripts for administration tasks where possible and appropriate
- Develop, support, and document automated build and configuration management processes
- Guide and participate in the implementation and coding of the new solutions
- Train and mentor junior engineers
- Deploy, configure, and manage scaled compute resources, services, platforms, frameworks, and applications in the cloud
- The ideal candidate should be a detail-oriented self-starter with independent problem-solving skills, who exhibits excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 6 + years of experience as a Cloud Software Engineer, Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, or equivalent cloud experience
- 4+ years of DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines, containers, and automation
- 4+ years of experience implementing and administering AWS services including EC2, Lambda, ELB, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation, etc.
- Strong understanding of AWS Security and Network controls
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or other IaC tool
- Experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or other configuration management tool
- Experience with one or more scripting languages like Python, Bash/Shell, or PowerShell
- General understanding of compliance around FedRAMP
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Proven ability to work across teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
- The ability to work in a fast-paced team environment
- Strong aptitude to learn and passion for problem solving
- Ability and discipline to work and succeed in a fast pace and organizationally complex environment, to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology
- Ability to work independently
- Strong presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
- Understanding of Automation and Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI-CD)
- Experience in design and implementing secure cloud application environments
- Strong self-awareness and self-motivation
- 4 years in a customer facing role
- AWS Professional Certification or equivalent
- Three years of continuous residency in the US for issuance of a Government Security credential
- The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation after hire to obtain a badge for government facility access and user account