Cloud Engineer

About Bridge Defense. Bridge Defense is redefining how modern defense technology is delivered. Based in Washington, D.C., we are built for the dynamic mission environment facing the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and federal law enforcement agencies. We provide full-spectrum national security solutions that combine secure infrastructure, cleared talent, and mission-ready software to meet evolving defense challenges. Our services include secure software development in classified environments and the design and implementation of advanced IT and cybersecurity capabilities ranging from secure cloud architectures and enterprise infrastructure to data center operations, scientific analysis, cutting-edge cyber defense, and intelligence analysis.

We are led by technologists and veterans with firsthand mission experience, which enables us to understand both the operational realities and the innovation needed to succeed. Our approach is agile and outcome-based, delivering results in weeks rather than months whenever possible.

At Bridge Defense we value people, integrity, and excellence. We foster an environment where innovation thrives in support of traditional mission requirements. Our team members receive competitive compensation, robust benefits, professional development and certification opportunities, and clear paths for growth while working on the nation’s most critical projects.

Core Values:

• Innovation & Responsiveness: We push beyond legacy models with efficient, tech-led solutions built to scale and evolve.
• Trusted Performance: Security, compliance, and deep experience in delivering to demanding environments guides all we do.
• Mission Focused Expertise: From veteran leadership to cleared engineers, our people understand both the technology and the mission.

Summary:

As a Cloud Engineer you will support our federal client’s mission to accelerate discovery and delivery of identity and network-based intelligence to counter national security threat actors by applying experience relevant in an intelligence domain. The appropriate candidate is required to have the following skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilites:

• Provide technical expertise in range of cloud technologies to include cloud development, cloud architecture, cloud system engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps engineering and operations and Agile development methodologies
• Leads team on projects of various layers of complexity and creates solution involving or affecting financial, scheduling, methodology, tools and prepares long and short-range plans for application selection, system development, processes, procedures and producing methods
• Acts as a liaison to take the project requirements from the customer and then translate that to a technical requirement
• Manage the project stakeholders and works with them as a technical point of contact for everything related to cloud engineering
• Plan, execute and close projects that meet or exceed customer expectation
• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools and IT Infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities
• Setting up the tools and the required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update and support the DevSecOps process
• Have a technical skill to review, verify and validate the software code developed in the project
• Troubleshooting the techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the process during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying security measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incident management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication with team and with customers both external and internal
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and customer
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Collaborate with the rest of engineering team to design and launch new features. Includes coordination and documentation of deployment procedures, release plans, etc.
• Keen interest in learning and using the latest software tools, methods, and technologies to solve real world problem sets vital to national security
• Support off-hours deployment such as evening or weekends.
• Co-location: High colocation, 70-80% onsite.

Required Qualifications, Education, and Experience:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Understanding of cloud architectures and enabling tools and technologies, such as, AWS Cloud Architecture, AWS Public Cloud, Azure Cloud Services, Cloud Engineering, Enterprise Cloud.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Foundation
• Cloud Architecture Design: Foundation
• Cloud Computing: Foundation
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Working knowledge with Collaboration tools, such as, Jira and Confluence

Desired Qualifications, Education, and Experience:

• CompTIA Security +
• AWS Certified Developer Associate or Solution Architect, Similar certification in Azure or GCP preferred
• Certification in one of the Ci/CD tools preferrable Gitlab or Jenkins or attended courses in those
• ITIL Certification a plus
• Experience with DevOps environments
• Expertise in various COTS, GOTS and open-source tools which support development of data integration and visualization applications
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications

The Successful Candidate will Possess:

• Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills.
• The candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties.
• Critical thinker with strong technical skills, diagnostic skills and problem-solving ability.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills to negotiate direction, drive projects and projects to successful conclusion and deliver knowledge to team members verbally and via clear designs, runbooks and technical engineering and exchange sessions.
• Self-starter, flexible, adaptable, collaborative and motivated to champion continuous improvement.
• Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems.
• Ability to operate across traditional technical boundaries, comfortable working in the compute space as well as the storage space in an operational capacity.
• Technically curious and driven to learn new skills.

General Factors:

• Depending on project requirements, may be required to work within a compressed schedule; overtime should be expected when schedules demand it.
• Willing to travel, if needed.
• No Relocation.
• Must be able to sit/stand at a desk for long-periods and must be able to lift 20 pounds occasionally.
• Must be able to multi-task and rapidly change priorities with limited notice.

Online applications, please.

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