Principal Cloud Engineer - Washington D.C. - Public Trust Needed Technology Systems

Principal Cloud Engineer is needed for a contract opportunity with SOC's client onsite in Washington D.C.

*Contract Length: 6+ months, likely temp to perm

*Must be able to obtain Public Trust

Job Description:

• Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
  
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
  
• Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
  
• Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
  
• Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
  
• Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including
  
  
  
  • Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
    
  • AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53
    
  
  

• 12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure - preferred experience is DevOps focused
  
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
  
• Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption
  
• Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions
  
• Experience deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower
  
• Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting
  
• Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
  
• Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, and load balancers
  
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
  
• Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
  
• Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
  
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
  
• Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure
  

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust

Employment Pre-requisites

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

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