Cloud Engineer

Overview: Cloud Engineer Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions. Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team as a Cloud Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission. Responsibilities: What you get to do every day: As the Cloud Engineer you will work with a highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support. You will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings. Specific Duties and Responsibilities: Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc) Produce detailed documentation Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS Automate and optimize service deployments Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers) Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability Mentoring junior developers Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts Qualifications: Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly Certification Required: Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Education/Experience: Requires Bachelor's degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience 8+ years of experience Required Skills: Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services Strong Troubleshooting skills Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus Extensive Typescript or Javascript background Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes What is ideal: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner preferred Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java) Experience with Go programming language Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development Database experience with a Postgres backend Strong communication skills Intelligence Community Experience preferred What you can expect from us: Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by bcore through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community The expected salary range within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $122,000 - $147,000. Final compensation is unique to each individual and will be determined based on factors such as experience, education, geographic location, and contractual requirements. This is not a guarantee. Benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more. BCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.