Cloud Systems Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

VetsEZ is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer to join our remote DevSecOps team and support our customer, the Department of Veterans Affairs. As a Cloud Engineer you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions to meet the needs of our customers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize cloud-based applications and services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

The ideal candidate will have a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications and an ability to customize them to help our customer become more secure and efficient and have an extensive knowledge of cloud maintenance, security, and advanced industry emerging technologies within AWS or Azure.

The Candidate must reside within the continential United States. 

Responsibilities:

• Work with the development team and production support team to ensure the applications are working as expected.
• Designing, developing, and deploying modular cloud-based systems.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Working on day-to-day operational issues, requests and project tasks involving various technologies e.g. AWS, Azures.
• Install, configure, administrate, manage, and support cloud instances.
• Must have hands-on experience of system administration of Windows or Linux server-side infrastructure, virtual machines.
• Take ownership of issues, with a sense of urgency, and use sound judgement to resolve within service levels.
• Engage peers in accordance with processes and procedures to create complete solution designs.
• Develop and communicate task level detail for project plans.
• Must be able to effectively coordinate and multi-task across various groups and functional teams inside and outside of the organization.
• Prior experience working at a Managed Services/IT Services company is preferred, and a background in dealing with global teams and remote teams will be a strong plus.

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or any other relevant discipline is required.
• A minimum of 5+ years of cloud development experience is required.
• One or more of the following certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional); AWS Certified; Advanced Networking (Specialty) For MAG Azure; Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate; Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Experience with DevOps principles including but not limited to Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerization, and DevSecOps principles.
• Strong Knowledge of cloud computing platforms, such as AWS and Azure.
• Experience in designing, developing and managing cloud-based infrastructure and applications.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, PowerShell, SQL, Postgres or scripting for automation equivalent.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of Application Programming Interfaces (API) and web services.

Additional Qualifications:

• Skills managing infrastructure, platform, application, and database services; virtual machines, containers, storage, and networking in a CSP environment like AWS or Azure.
• Skills in managing disaster recovery (DR), High Availability (HA), failover, and redundancy in a CSP environment.
• Migration, scaling systems & data, and implementing systems in a CSP for a large-scale system (s).
• Ability to communicate technical issues and effective documentation skills.
• Cloud computing certification AWS or Azure.
• Ability to obtain government clearance.
• VA experience is preferred.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Sorry, we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.