Summary
Seeking a Cloud System Engineer I to join our team. The candidate will support a growing Cloud Services practice. In particular, the successful candidate will help drive GAMA-1's efforts to support of its customers strategic initiatives. These strategic cloud initiatives intend to increase the bureau's IT efficiency, improve IT delivery, and reduce costs. The ideal candidate will have hands on experience administering cloud technologies.
Essential functions/responsibilities
- Direct the cloud administrative duties within a cloud environment (s) Including, but not limited to, Compute, storage, notification and queue management, and infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Direct the assemble and documentation of agile-related artifacts (i.e., from user studies, backlog management activities, etc.)
- Provide guidance regarding infrastructure movement techniques, including application transfer/migration into the cloud
- Direct the development of cloud business best practices and processes.
- Work directly with multiple teams and business units to understand business needs and translate those to IT/business capabilities
- Participate as part of UAT and development process (as needed)
- Other duties as assigned
Required Skills
- 2+ years’ experience administrating cloud compute, storage, and infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
- Hands-on experience using cloud services, containerization technologies, to include building Docker Container Images, scripting languages, open standard data interchange formats, job scheduling and management software tools (ECR, EKS, YAML, PYTHON, JSON, OpenPBS)
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, code-defined infrastructure, configuration management tools, and CI/CD
- Experience with AWS Lambda and “Serverless” systems
- Experience in large-scale enterprise IT environments
- Strong verbal and communications skills, working with senior leadership and across organizational teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (ability to explain technical issues in layman's terms)
- Excellent communication and writing skills
Preferred Skills
- Federal government experience
- Working knowledge of Jira projects, workflows, issue types, permissions, and notifications
- 2+ years’ experience with Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, BitBucket
- Preferred Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Architect with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure
Education and Experience
- BS/BA in Computer Science, a Technical Field, or other related disciplines OR 4+ years of experience supporting an AWS
Work Environment
- Work is normally performed in a remote environment
This position requires the ability to obtain a public trust security clearance.
The base salary range for this position is: $106,703.56 - $150,413.45
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What We Do
GAMA-1 is a highly-technical Certified Small Disadvantaged Business with a mature service delivery model. We combine industry and government standards with established GAMA-1 methodologies to develop, engineer, secure, implement, and maintain IT solutions and services. We refine our methods through continuous process improvement and hold International Organization of Standards (ISO) 9001 (Quality), ISO 20000 (ITSM), and ISO 27001 (Security) certifications. We train our staff on IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 and apply Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services Level 3 processes.
GAMA-1 is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for two consecutive years. This prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at GAMA-1 Technologies. This year, 97% of employees said it’s a great workplace compared to 57% of typical U.S.-based company employees.
