Cloud Engineer

D2 Consulting

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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
Unspecified
IT - Hardware
Springfield, VA (On-Site/Office)

**ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED**

As a Cloud Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared Cloud Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

The Cloud Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment.

What our team should strive for:

• Must be able to support data collection from a large, complex server and network infrastructure and user base

• Must possess a strong work ethic, be self-directed, and be a detail-oriented professional

• Must be willing to learn and adapt to new, cutting-edge technologies

• Must be willing to document work and participate in the customer's change procedures

• Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised

• Must be a team player; willing to both share knowledge and learn from others to ensure the team's success Designs and defines system architecture for new or existing computer systems.

Experience with the following:

• Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, Rackspace

• Experience with private clouds such as VMWare, OpenStack

• Experience with Hadoop

• Experience as a system architect/administrator/operator in a production environment

• Knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and/or SAAS cloud technologies.

• Knowledge of network technologies (MPLS, routing protocols, forwarding), common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

• Experience with hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-VSpecific Duties and Responsibilities

• Architect, build, maintain Hadoop, and other cloud infrastructure

• Apply Configuration Management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation

• Develop and direct the development of content for a complex and growing infrastructure. This includes use cases for Dashboards, Active Channels, Reports, Rules, Filters, Trends, and Active Lists

• Provide guidance to security analyst and network engineering staff

• Working Closely with C&A Team to maintain Security requirements for Operation of IEC systems

• Support all aspects of NCE's Security Information and Event Management initiative.

• Supporting the establishment, enhancement, and continual improvement of an integrated set of correlation rules, alerts, searches, reports, and responses.

• Coordinating and conducting event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring activities for the customer's system.

• Perform routine equipment checks and preventative maintenance

• Performing systems hardening to DoD Standards

• Maintaining up to date documentation of designs/configurations

• Create shell and perl scripts to facilitate automated tasks

• Work with other Service Providers to support areas of common interest

• Working with software and hardware vendors

• 5+ years of related systems engineering experience.

• Solaris systems engineering experience

• Cloud platforms

• Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.

• Knowledge of the associated hardware, software, and equipment

• Professional certification in one or more specific technologies may be required, depending on job assignment.

EDUCATION

BS and 5+ years of experience or equivalent combination or education and years of experience

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to use problem solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues.

Desired Skills:

• Strong background in Unix, Solaris, or Windows servers

• Scripting skills

Location:

St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA

US Citizenship Required

Additional Information
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
  • Compensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically $140-160k. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.
  • Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Accrued PTO, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and more!
  • D2 is committed to maintaining a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Job applicants that are interested in one of our openings and may require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, should contact us to request an accommodation.
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D2 Consulting provides services to the Federal Government focused in the following three area's We leverage D2 Consulting engineering, operations and governance best practices to efficiently and effectively deploy, maintain and continuously improve IT services and solutions. This includes not only engineering solutions such as VDI and providing direct support to operations but also deploying the tools to instrument and maintain Enterprise performance and availability (including ITSM and Enterprise Management Tools). Protect & Secure: This is our cyber security practice, which includes functions like audit and information assurance, as well as the traditional mechanics of securing IT systems and services. We have experience working with the Government to better manage risk to help move the accreditation process along. This is especially true with respect to adapting accreditation controls to a cloud environment.

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Job Category
IT - Hardware
Clearance Level
Top Secret/SCI