Cloud Engineer

About the job Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex, cross-organizational solution analysis, design, development, implementation, and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.

RCS is seeking a Cloud Engineer to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open-source data, information, and insights. Requires application development support to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. Will work within an existing team environment. Work will include developing enhancements to an existing service-based web application.

This position requires the candidate to work onsite in Chantilly, VA. Relocation assistance is not available.

What you will do:

• Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• Apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• Ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
• Support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
• Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, hardware and networks.
• Manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities and apply security controls.

Required Qualifications/Education:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph

• Monitoring system performance and troubleshooting.
• Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware, and networks.
• Working within cloud computing environments, Linux, and Unix-based operating systems.
• Platform and application automated deployment.
• AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Managing and mitigating IT security vulnerabilities using Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs).
• Applying FISMA security controls.
• Documenting and communicating technical and non-technical mission requirements for all audiences.
• Working collaboratively with other technical teams across multiple organizational boundaries.
• Implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization.
• Using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations
• Incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices.

RCS is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities as an applicant, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify

All RCS work locations are drug-free workplaces.