Cloud Engineer SME

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Bethesda, MD

Job Type: Full-time

LOCATION: Bethesda, MD

CLEARANCE: TS/SCI CI Polygraph

VMR Strategic Solutions, LLC is currently seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer SME to support a Government contract located in Bethesda, MD. The ideal candidates must possess the following skills listed below.

Responsibilities / Duties:

The Cloud Engineer will use their agile methodology experience to augment a team of developers, in support of the development of a clean sheet suite of AWS Serverless Applications. Team members will be able to strive while producing high quality work through collaboration with team members and customers while making a difference through individual contributions for mission success. As part of an Intel Application Services, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation's safety, security, and prosperity. The candidate will work closely with multiple contractor teams and the customer to transform approved requirements into features during each sprint. You will help to develop the new suite of applications one sprint at a time. The candidate will be responsible for helping to develop code, unit test, hold code reviews, check in code and help to build the code pipeline for continuous integration/continuous delivery. Responsible for developing cloud-based technologies in a secure environment.

Required Skills:

6+ years of experience in the design, development and implementation of new software products or major enhancements to existing software

Solid hands-on working experience with configuring and maintaining resources on AWS

Experience deploying the majority of EC2, ELB, Cloud Formation, S3, Glacier, CodeDeploy, SNS, SQS, RDS, IAM Hands-on understanding of virtualization and experience with Docker

Deep, hands-on experience with AWS Lambda and administration

Experience automating cloud infrastructure, such as with Cloud Formation Experience managing Atlassian tooling such as Jira and Confluence preferred

Experience deploying and managing a wide range of components that support web applications, such a nginx, Apache http, git, scripting (bash, Perl, Python, etc.), databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.), and API calls. Solid understanding of work-flow based work streams

Research, test, build, and coordinate the conversion and/or integration of new products based on user requirements

Address problems of system integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms

Consults with project teams and end users to identify application requirements

Assists in the evaluation and recommendation of application software packages, application integration and testing tools

Experience with software systems development in the IC community

Resolves problems with applications and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements

Education:

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science

Additional Skills/not required:

Experience with Financial Management Systems

DevOPs Script creating and execution (CI/CD) exposure to supported cloud-based programming languages and/or SDKs

AWS Developer Certification and/or AWS DevOps certification

Company info

VMR Strategic Solutions