Who YOU are:
As a future Senior Cloud Automation Engineer at Plus3 IT Systems, you:
- Are passionate about working on cutting edge, high profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
- Aren’t satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments
- Are insatiably curious and willing to learn – you ask why, you explore, and you’re not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea in front of a team of highly collaborative peers
- Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team and customers
- Have a keen interest in using any and all appropriate tools, especially Cloud-based and Open Source, to solve the problem at hand
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together
- Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment
- Are obsessed with automation, simplicity, and smooth-running systems
What you’ll be doing:
- Building and maintaining automation tooling and pipelines that enable secured systems to be deployed across a variety of environments, including public/private cloud, virtual machines, or bare metal servers.
- Developing automation to standardize and secure cloud services such as server operating system builds, including Windows and Linux, that are compliant with enterprise standards and security policy.
- Developing, deploying, and maintaining Cloud infrastructure and applications as code for a global agency supporting security monitoring and big data
- Solving challenging problems involving system and environment internals, to provide solutions that are simple to use, but can be customized to meet customer needs.
- Work with customer and end users to determine migration path for existing tools and services, guiding future enterprise capabilities.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to test build releases and ensure builds provide a consistent core foundation for hosting government and commercial applications.
- Supporting technologies and products, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, RedHat Linux, CentOS, Saltstack, Terraform, Git, GitOps, Python
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience
- 14 years of relevant experience.
- Top Secret clearance
- A strong desire to learn!
Desired Qualifications:
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II (or equivalent) certification
- Active Cloud Certifications
- Basic Level
- Pro Level
- Top Secret Clearance with ability to obtain an SCI and CI poly
- Desired experience with following tools and products: PowerShell, Python, Javascript, Terraform, Saltstack, Ansible, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Travis-CI, Azure Pipelines, CodeBuild
- PowerShell Cloud modules a plus (Azure RM, Az)
- Desired experience with practices and concepts: DevSecOps, GitOps, ConfigOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Declarative Programming, Event-driven Architectures/Pipelines
- Experience with Cloud command line tools (Azure CLI, AWS CLI) a plus.
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.
What We Do
Plus3 IT Systems, LLC (Plus3 IT) was founded in 2015 by subject matter experts with significant experience delivering complex solutions for Federal Government customers. Supporting a wide variety of mission requirements, we provide expert-level Cloud Adoption, Cloud Security, Cloud Enabled Data Analytics, and Cloud Native Application Development. We also offer analysis, design, and operations for cloud environments. Our passion is helping our customers achieve their goals with our teams of innovative technology practitioners and agile collaborative processes.
