ECS is seeking a
Mid-Level Cloud Engineer to work in our
Falls Church, VA office.
We are a rapidly growing company that considers our employees and teams to be our most important assets. Our team environment provides opportunities for growth to individuals who are motivated to excel. We are situated in Merrifield, VA well positioned for most commutes within the Northern Virginia area. We also offer opportunities for telework and have some of the most interesting, advanced IT business in the DC area. Our growing program works with the most forward leaning technologies and extraordinary customers who are thought and action leaders within the AI/ML domain. We offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package to the right person for this key position.
ECS is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to work as a member of a team managing and maintaining multiple network enclaves to support the DOD community. The candidate will help design and implement solutions in Azure cloud. This is a demanding, high-energy position requiring innovative solutions to manage network, hardware, and software problems. The candidate will work with a team to help design, implement, and maintain virtual infrastructure of multiple enclaves. The ideal candidate will have a breadth of expertise in cloud networking concepts, modern CI/CD pipeline, platform automation, and infrastructure development supporting these technologies. The candidate must have strong problem-solving skills.
Primary Duties:
- Work closely with stakeholders and other members of the technical team to gather technical requirements and execute on deliverables.
- Provide development, maintenance, and implementation of secure systems in Azure to support highly available, scalable, and secure applications.
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with a wide range of Azure cloud service providers/solutions.
- Support risk mitigation activities such as Assessment and Authorization (A&A), continuous monitoring, and vulnerability and configuration management.
- Integrate with, and support a team of subject matter experts, in a highly agile environment to implement best in class multi-cloud solutions by leveraging a variety of automation, instance and/or container, orchestration, security, and native/non-native cloud services for large DoD program(s).
- Work with cloud team to architect, design, implement, and maintain cloud solutions and new capabilities in Azure.
- Assist in partner network integration, testing, and monitoring.
The job is located in Fairfax, VA but will require travel to Falls Church, VA for weekly customer site support as needed.
- Must already have an active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret, if required.
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) discipline preferred and at least 6-7 years of related experience.
- Must be Department of Defense (DoD) 8570 Compliant, IAT Level II.
- At least 6 years of experience designing, engineering, and deploying infrastructure systems and services within cloud environments.
- At least 4 years of hands-on experience working with Azure cloud computing technologies across Windows and Linux endpoints.
- Demonstrate hands-on experience developing solutions with cloud orchestration tools.
- Demonstrate hands-on experience in Azure Compute, Storage, Networking, and High Availability.
- Experience in monitoring with related technologies like Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Alerts, or Network Watcher.
- Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby etc.).
- Strong knowledge and experience with virtual desktop interfaces.
- Strong knowledge and experience with Active Directory.
- Proficiency with cloud networking and troubleshooting cloud networking environments (IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, NAT, SSL/TLS, etc.).
- Proven experience in assessment, evaluation, and documentation of client environment, infrastructure, processes, and operations.
- Hands-on experience/knowledge deploying DoD SRGs and STIGs or CIS compliance benchmarks.
- Ability to work efficiently and meet project deadlines with limited supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to confront difficult problems in a positive and creative way.
- Balance multiple and competing priorities and execute accordingly.
- Possibility of travel up to 10% (most domestic but possibly an occasional international trip).