Senior Cloud Engineer - Technical Patching Lead

Senior Cloud Engineer - Technical Patching Lead

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity:

CACI is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer – Technical Patching Lead to head our cloud operations team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will become part of the Datacenter Consolidation and Cloud Optimization (DCCO) program supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Senior Cloud Engineer – Technical Patching Lead is responsible for supporting applications hosted on the AWS and Azure Gov Cloud environment and maintenance of Windows and Linux server operating systems.  Successful candidates will utilize their experience to help design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications and manage small- and large-scale cloud solutions as part of Operations and Maintenance activities. The Senior Cloud Engineer – Technical Patching Lead is responsible for identifying scalable solutions using an in-depth coding, scripting, programming, and automation skillset with cloud native tools to create innovative and optimized cloud solutions. This includes integrating cloud services, automating deployment and operations, ensuring security and compliance, monitoring and performance optimization as well as collaborate with cross-functional teams consisting of subject matter experts (SMEs), technical personnel, and project management personnel.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Cloud Engineer – Technical Patching Lead is responsible for cloud operations and maintenance. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design and develop applications that are optimized for cloud environments, leveraging cloud-native technologies such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions to handle business logic, data processing, and integration with databases and external systems.
• Able to write clean, scalable, and maintainable code using programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, or C#.
• Integrate cloud services and APIs into applications to leverage infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS).
• Work with cloud services such as compute instances, databases, storage, messaging, and identity and access management (IAM) to meet application requirements.
• Automate deployment, provisioning, and management of applications and infrastructure using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager. Implement continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to streamline development and operations processes.
• Automate and streamline the deployment, operations, and management of cloud-based applications and infrastructure. This includes leveraging DevOps principles, practices, and tools to implement continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD), infrastructure as code (IaC), and automated testing to accelerate development cycles and improve collaboration between development and operations teams.
• Engineer, install, maintain, configure, and optimize server operating systems (Windows and Linux) and hosted applications hosted in the AWS and Azure Cloud environments.
• Perform analysis for collaboration of network / system needs and participate in planning, designing, upgrading and deployment using a project-based timeline.
• Apply appropriate security measures to properly safeguard government systems by implementing industry standard best practices and DHS mandated mitigations.
• Design, build, test, and deploy highly scalable and resilient cloud-based applications on private and public cloud.

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Ability to obtain TS/SCI DoD Security Clearance (active TS preferred)
• Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) - Active EOD preferred.
• BA/BS and 10 years’ experience in a related field, or equivalent (equivalency includes MA + 7 years applicable experience or AA + 12 years applicable experience)
• At least one senior level Azure or AWS certification (i.e., Azure Developer Associate/Solutions Architect Expert, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Certified Developer Associate
• Demonstrated experience with designing and developing cloud applications using cloud-native tools.
• Demonstrated experience with programming and infrastructure automation (JSON, YAML, Python, Terraform, Ansible)
• Demonstrated experience implementing Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for variou