Cloud Systems Engineer

Seeking a highly experienced Remote Cloud Systems Engineer to support growing Cloud Services practice. In particular, the successful candidate will help drive efforts to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) and National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) cloud initiatives. These strategic cloud initiatives intend to increase the bureau's IT efficiency, improve IT delivery, and reduce costs. The candidate must have extensive experience architecting and provisioning enterprise-level Cloud services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).  

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

·     Non-Supervisory Role   

MUST BE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND A US CITIZEN

Requirements

The Cloud Systems Engineer will support NESDIS satellite ground systems infrastructure and the common services they provide to our global stakeholder community. These systems and services are deemed mission-critical technologies that receive, process, disseminate, store, and archive petabytes of environmental data and information collected from space daily in support of environmental science and the global stakeholder community.  

Specifically, the Cloud Systems Engineer is responsible for planning and engineering NESDIS' NCCF and NGE cloud computing infrastructure and applications. The Cloud Systems Engineer will implement and design server, network, and software configurations for a cloud computing infrastructure and applications focusing on DevOps principles. They will monitor the performance of the systems. The candidate should be familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The candidate will work closely with the Cloud Architect, who is responsible for designing the system architecture and interface control using requirements to enhance existing and build/develop new capabilities within the AWS NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) to provide the future state of the NESDIS Ground Enterprise (NGE) with common services. This technical customer-facing role will be accountable for the end-to-end customer experience.  

• Plan, maintain and manage the current infrastructure environment within the federal customers' requirements, to ensure uptime and reliability (Operations & Maintenance) 
• Research, design, deploy, provision, and document new technologies implemented within the environment
• Experience working with Cloud Service Providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platforms 
• Architect, monitor and control consumption, of AWS Government Cloud, with input from the federal engineering team 

• Implement modern ground systems and applications and underlying technology stacks 
• Participate with the Information Security partners and implement cybersecurity updates to the system
• Provide reporting metrics to Project Manager and Federal team for infrastructure run within the environment
• Work collaboratively with other segments of the federal customer IT division to ensure end-customer success
• Contribute to all phases of system development and support with planning, analysis, modeling, simulation, testing, integration, documentation, and presentation 
• An intense focus will be on the technical documentation to be used for operational support for end-technologies 
• Set up new processes for our AWS Government Cloud environment, including data migration, backup, and recovery. Ensuring the system is always backed up and recoverable. 
• Provide support when needed (nights and weekends for deployments or incidents) 
• Support cloud optimization activities; performance and cost 

• Evaluate and recommend best-fit, commercially available, and FEDRAMP-compliant cloud services utilizing various cloud models (i.e., public, private, hybrid) to support NOAA's mission and specific business, technical, and security requirements. 
• Develops solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public, and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services. 
• Researches and recommends cloud engineering techniques to enhance internal and external platforms, tools, and systems. 
• Develop cloud engineering system strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid (on-premise / cloud) and fully cloud-hosted applications to provide an 'always on' experience 
• Acts as a subject matter expert for end-to-end cloud systems engineering, including current and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management. 

• Defines optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disa