Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead

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Computer World Services, Corp. (CWS)Cloud infrastructure
Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.Full-TimeLead
Salary160,000 - 190,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience.
Required Skills
TerraformAnsibleCloudFormation

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least eight years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise IT experience.
  • Current AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer certification.
  • Active Secret clearance or higher.
  • Preferred experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or DoD environment, including AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized clouds.
  • Preferred advanced experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS monitoring and security services.
  • Preferred experience planning cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, modernization, and resilient hybrid architectures.
  • Preferred experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or Bash, and VMware technologies.
  • Preferred knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support.
  • Preferred AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware, or ITIL certifications or equivalent credentials.
  • After-hours availability may be required during outages, maintenance windows, deployments, migrations, and infrastructure-refresh activities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, and hybrid-cloud services, and architect secure, high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud solutions.
  • Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and connectivity across cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments.
  • Engineer cloud DNS services, load balancers, API gateways and integrations, and digital certificates.
  • Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, cost, and operational risk, and resolve cloud and infrastructure issues.
  • Coordinate outage diagnosis, mitigation, restoration, and validation, and provide root-cause input.
  • Lead installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, and deployments, including implementation, test, and rollback plans.
  • Maintain asset, configuration, and lifecycle records, and support refresh, disposition, and inventory validation.
  • Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code for provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Integrate cloud capabilities with VMware, software-defined data-center, COOP, and on-premises environments; design backup, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities.
  • Prepare cost estimates, concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, and service-design packages; support security requirements and mentor engineering and administration staff.
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