Cloud Engineer Job Listing at SAIC in Bethesda, MD (Job ID 2508767)

Description

Description

SAIC, a leading provider of systems development & deployment, targeting & intelligence analysis, systems engineering & integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community, is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance. This position is in Bethesda, MD. 

We are seeking highly motivated Cloud Engineers to join our National Intelligence Program supporting the operations, maintenance, and enhancements of a complex, hybrid on-premises and cloud enterprise IT environment. The Cloud Engineers will collaborate with developers, system administrators, scrum masters, testers, and customers to define requirements, design, develop, and deploy applications into a cloud or hybrid cloud-based solutions. This position is responsible for the end-to-end cloud deployment experience, from concept development to deployment. The Cloud Engineers will also require providing support and troubleshooting issues with existing production cloud environments. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Researching, designing, developing and/or modifying AWS cloud systems.
• Engineering, configuring, testing, and implementing cloud services to support web applications and the hosting environment.
• Proposing new cloud services that can be leveraged to benefit the customer's applications.
• Ensuring the implementation of all cloud services is being performed in accordance with industry best practices.
• Ensuring the implementation of all cloud services is being performed in accordance with customer's required security controls and security best practices.
• Ensuring the implementation of all cloud services is being performed in the most cost-efficient manner possible.
• Writing scripts to configure, implement, and leverage cloud services.
• Working with software developers and system administrators to troubleshoot issues within cloud environment and services.
• Working with other customer organizations to activate, configure, or troubleshoot cloud services. 

Qualifications

Required Education:

• Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Possess an AWS Certification such as Solutions Architect, Cloud Solutions Architect AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, SysOps Administrator (Associate), Certified DevOps Engineer, or Big Data (Specialty).
• 5 to 8+ years' experience with utilizing Amazon Web Services to create cloud-based applications such as (but not limited to) Lambda, SWF, SNS, SQS, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, S3, RDS, and Bedrock.
• 3 to 5+ years scripting experience using JSON, PowerShell, or other coding.
• 5 to 8+ years relevant cloud engineering experience.
• 3 to 5 years systems/software engineering experience.

Desired Experience:

• Experience with one of the large cloud-computing infrastructure solutions similar to AWS or Elastic MapReduce. 
• Possess CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Experience supporting highly distributed applications.
• Experience leading cross-functional technology team.
• Knowledge of Agile software development.

Clearance: 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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