Security Clearance required:

Cognosante is seeking to fill Cloud Administrator positions in support of VA (Veterans Affairs) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of VA’s Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy VA applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of VA’s IT infrastructure. The candidate will support our VA clients in their cloud operations to enhance, optimize, and maintain their computing capabilities across their technical landscape. This includes working with our VA system admins when supporting application teams, working with project teams to operate & maintain (O&M) VA applications on their cloud platform. The Cloud Administrator must have expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.

Key responsibilities:

• Utilize the VA Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools (VAECOT), CSP native portals and tools, and/or other VA TRM-approved tools necessary to assist VA applications in the VA’s enterprise cloud (VAECOT tools listed at the bottom)

• Utilize automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, or similar

• Assist with upgrading, installing, and configure monitoring solution for AWS or Azure for Windows or Linux servers

• Create and maintain gold images/scripts

• Assist with reporting on current infrastructure status

• Document each application’s production operations processes via a production operation manual (POM)

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.

• Experience developing and implementing technical standards, systems and processes for cloud and on-prem environments.

• Experience recommending technology strategies and decisions with a high-level of expertise and knowledge.

• Experience providing technical direction and support to ensure compliance with standards and guidelines.

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or technical discipline (10 years additional work experience might be considered in lieu of a degree).

• Current AWS or Azure certification or a recent passing exam (e.g., AWS CCP, AWS CSA associate/professional, AZ-900, AZ-104)

• Experience in one or more of the VAECOT suite of tools, shown below.

• Able to pass a background check to obtain a Public Trust

• Must be a U.S. citizen

Candidates that do not meet the minimum qualifications will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position

• ITIL certification or ITIL knowledge

• Can provide technical support and OS-level remediations for Nessus scans

• Some experience with network and/or systems administration in Linux (Red Hat) or Windows environments

• Some knowledge of security regulations, best practices, countermeasures, compliance standards and current threats.

• Experience creating technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and how-to guides

• Helping application teams with system administration

• Multiple Microsoft or Amazon cloud certifications

• Previous Federal Government experience preferably at VA

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant hands-on experience cloud experience in administering Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

• Experience with at least one configuration technology including: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

VAEC Operational Tools (VAECOT)

Some experience in one or more of the following tools is required:

Third party tools

• Application Performance Monitoring: Dynatrace, AppDynamics

• Cloud Security: Nessus, NetSkope, Enterprise Security External Change Council, Identity and Assessment Management, Continuous Monitoring as a Service, McAfee, eMASS, Centrify

• Cloud Governance: Turbot

• DevOps/Configuration Management/Help Desk: Ansible, Service Desk, ScienceLogic, ServiceNOW, SPLUNK, Jira ServiceDesk, Cloudockit, GitHub

• Containerization: Red Hat OpenShift

• Migration: CloudKey, Version One

• Reporting: Apptio

Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Operational Tools Tools/Services

• AWS Security: System Manager (Explorer and OpsCenter), CloudWatch, Config, CloudTrail, Elasticsearch ( Kinesis DataStreams), GuardDuty, Inspector, Key Management Service (KMS), Security Hub, Directory Service, Identity and Access M