Cloud Engineer SME with Security Clearance

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Cloud Engineer SME to join our Client's team. Description: The Cloud Engineering SME will be responsible for the development and delivery of Customer's cloud adoption and migration. This position will serve as the Platform Engineering SME to provide the technical guidance and direction to design the modular operating system baselines to support the modular data and application Tier hosting strategy. This position will serve as the Data and Application Security SME to provide technical guidance and direction to engineering a modular security design to protect the workloads hosting services for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This position will introduce and champion the SysOps and DevOps concepts for the Customer. Requirements: Active US Security Clearance of TS/SCI w/ Polygraph required
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology (IT), or a related discipline and 10 - 12 years experience
Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
General programming skills with knowledge of programming languages such as SQL, Java, Python, and/or Ruby
Knowledge of virtual networks and general network management functions
Cloud database management skills and knowledge of MySQL and Hadoop
Technical Responsibilities: Support working and integrating open-source frameworks/products, experience deploying various open-source packages and/or application stacks into the Customer's production landscape, multi-core, multi-threaded, and distributed system
Develop and apply requirements and specifications documentation
Abilities Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
Sitting for extended periods of time.
Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Identify and understand the speech of another person.
Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI Full Scope Poly Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors. EOE of Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabilities