Sr. Cloud Engineer

U.S. CITIZENSHIP OR GREEN CARD REQUIRED Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure 2. Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions 3. Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges 4. Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams 5. Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities 6. Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including a. 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 b. 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 REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: hands-on experience deploying/configuring workloads within AWS OR Azure 2. Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures 3. Extensive experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including CloudFormation and Terraform 4. Good understanding of DevOps best practices and experience working with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory 5. Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters 6. Strong experience troubleshooting enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows 7. Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases 8. Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment 9. Professional Architect Certification in AWS OR Azure Job Type: Full-time Pay: $114,788.41 - $200,000.00 per year Benefits: 401(k) Dental insurance Health insurance Schedule: Monday to Friday Application Question(s): Are you strong with ALL of these tools? GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory Are you strong with IaC? Do you have an AWS ARCHITECT or Azure ARCHITECT certification? Can you work hybrid in DC? What is the salary you are looking for? Experience: Cloud: 8 years (Preferred) Ability to Relocate: Washington, DC 20590: Relocate before starting work (Required) Work Location: Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20590