Senior Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer with Security Clearance

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer LOCATION: DMV, St. Louis, MO - mostly remote work CLEARANCE LEVEL: Active TS/SCI Who YOU are:
As a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer at Plus3 IT Systems, you: Are passionate about working on cutting-edge, high-profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
Aren't satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments
Are insatiably curious - you ask why, you explore, and you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea
Are a strong self-performer that also flourishes in a team setting; and love the ability to work on multiple clients/projects simultaneously
Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team
Have a keen interest in using any and all appropriate tools, especially Cloud-based and Open Source, to solve the problem at hand
Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together
Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment
Are obsessed with automation, simplicity, and smooth-running systems Who We Are: A 2023 "Top Work Places" recipient
A company committed to your training, technical experience growth, and well being
Uniquely positioned and ready to expand, with your help, into more complex and technically challenging environments
Built upon subject matter expertise supporting the Federal Government with a focus on Cloud Adoption, Cloud Security, Cloud Enabled Data Analytics, Cloud Native Application Development, and DevSecOps
A small business with big partners such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft (Azure), and Google (Cloud Platform) and other technology partners;
Immuta
Databricks
GitLab
RedHat
Multiple Prime contract holder (GSA, SITE III, JAIC DRAID, and NDE)
Always a committed partner with our customers and laser-focused on their mission RESPONSIBILITIES: Evangelize methodologies for building and operating highly available, scalable services
Provide assistance in reducing and resolving production incidents (e.g., Site Reliability
Engineering)
Look for opportunities to improve all operations processes
Evaluate, build, and modify automation for deploying and operating production services
Create, assess, update, and maintain documentation pertaining to Product Lines
Develop and design elastic, resilient, and self-healing Cloud-native applications
Crafting excellent documentation for respective projects and carrying ownership of the code
and the instructional tutorials on how to use it
Work with team members to design, architect, and implement solutions across geographic
locations
Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: Python or Ruby ideally in SOA applications
A solid understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS,
SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks)
Understanding of industry standards for building services in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Cloud
environments
Knowledge of APIs and RESTful services
Understanding of DevSecOps
Good working knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery
ecosystem: Git, Gerrit, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Nexus
Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Fabric.
Understanding of DevSecOps
Certified AWS Solutions Architect EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's Degree or higher, or ten year's experience in Computer Science, Information
Systems, Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline
Master degree or fifteen years' experience in Computer Science or related technical
discipline
Five plus years of experience with AWS cloud services
Five years' experience finding and fixing critical, customer-facing production issues
Experience in the development of object-oriented software with languages like Java,
C ,
Experience with modern container orchestration systems: Kubernetes, Mesos, DC/OS,
Swarm.
Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and the best practices for deploying applications to
those stacks.