Description

SAIC is seeking a mid-level AWS Cloud Computing Engineer for its SAIC Cloud One Engineering Team! This is a role heavily focused on solving engineering challenges in a cloud environment with a high-performing team of collaborative cloud engineering professionals. The ideal candidate has performed well in a cloud engineering role for a few years and is looking to take on challenges in the largest government cloud in the Air Force.

The SAIC Cloud One team is responsible for the architecture, engineering and deployment of USAF Cloud engineering projects, designed to streamline performance, reduce administrative overhead and workload, and deliver a seamless user experience with our customers. Work can be performed remotely in the United States. This work supports the Cloud One program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). Cloud One is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data serves the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and other Government Customers. Cloud One facilitates the Government's efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF operations.

This position will be 100% remote.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Analyze existing system architecture and recommend secure design changes to the Cloud One AWS environment based on project objectives

• Develop scripts and workflows as needed for automated deployment (IaC/CaC)

• Provide oral and written input to design documents, best practice configurations, and test procedures

• Execute testing to validate system performance IAW developed test plans and criteria

• Recommend improvements to the existing architecture and process to reduce repetitive or time-intensive tasks in favor of automated solutions

• Provide experienced input on AWS cloud toolsets and best practices

• Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems

• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies

Qualifications

Required Clearance and Certification:

• Secret clearance required.

• US citizenship required.

• Security + or higher certification.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years' or more experience; Master's and seven (7) years' or more experience. Four (4) additional years or more of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

Required Skills:

• At least two (2) years of experience in AWS environment development and/or engineering.

• Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following:

• Networking

• VPNs

• IaaS

• PaaS

• SQL

• Jenkins

• Terraform

• Ansible

• Jira and Confluence

• Artifactory

• Guacamole

• Knowledge of and experience working with DevSecOps tool chains.

• Experience working in a collaborative team environment.

Desired Skills and Certification:

• AWS Cloud certification.

• Experience with other cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, Google Cloud, OCI).

• Zero trust architectures.

• Significant experience with automation tools including Ansible and Terraform.

• Experience with containerization tools such as Kubernetes.

• AF Cloud One or Platform 1 development, engineering, operations and sustainment.

• In-depth understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, SQL, storage, Active Directory, F5, Barracuda.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. 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. REQNUMBER: 2502603

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