Location: Springfield, VA/St. Louis, MO Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.** teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space.
Are you ready to test your abilities as a Cloud Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.
What you get to do every day: Responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support.
The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Build and Maintain Platform as a Service Offering using RedHat OpenShift Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc) Produce detailed documentation Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS Maintain System in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID Automate and optimize service deployments Clearance: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.** Education/Experience: Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience 5+ years IT experience 5+ years experience with Platform as a Service Offerings (e.g. RedHat OpenShift, Tanzu, etc) Required Skills: Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud based providers Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker) Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services Strong Troubleshooting skills Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus Strong communication skills What is ideal? Desired Certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and/or RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt or Terraform Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMWare) Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development Experience in technical operations at DOD agencies, particularly NGA and DIA Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses You'll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more! Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements. teKnoluxion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law. teKnoluxion does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to team members. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements. Regardless of vaccination status , personnel are required to wear masks while indoors when the CDC COVID-19 Community Level is High.
