Principal Cloud Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

Position Title: Principal Cloud Engineer Location: Hybrid in Washington, DC Position Overview: Marathon TS is seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Engineer to join one of our federal projects in the Washington, DC area. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player. Key Responsibilities: Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoots cloud performance issues. Analyze network traffic and provide capacity planning solutions. Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure Collaborate with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions Diagnose and resolve complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges Support all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams Identify opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities Create/update cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53 Qualifications: Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. 12 years' experience in information technology with 8 years of focused, hands-on experience deploying/configuring workloads within either AWS or Azure - preferred experience is DevOps focused Must possess at least 1 Professional or specialty certification from a cloud provider Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment Professional Architect Certification within either AWS or Azure Clearance: Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and is able to obtain a Public Trust. Marathon TS is committed to the development of a creative, diverse and inclusive work environment. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Marathon TS will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Marathon TS does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status").

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