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Alion Science and Technology

Cloud Engineer, Asc Principal - 37803

Norfolk, VA

Job Description

Are you an experience, motivated self-starter that wants to continue making significant impacts to the delivery of advanced concepts in cloud computing and cloud enabling technologies? Join Huntington Ingalls, Technical Solutions Division as a Senior Cloud Engineer and help accelerate our Joint Staff customers journey to full Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) paradigms to deliver capability to our training audience. Huntington Ingalls, Technical Solutions Division needs experts like you to refactor the existing and legacy enterprise information systems and software development environment to modern, emerging commercial approaches used by large tech companies to deliver just in time, secure solutions to our Joint Staff customer.

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As the Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll work with limited supervision as an architectural liaison across the Joint Staff, J7 many engineering projects to design, integrate, validate and field cloud enabling DevSecOps infrastructure into a fully automated, service-oriented, hybrid IT. Design, build and oversee the deployment and operation of automated build pipelines, migrations, security and compliance in hybrid cloud environments.
  • Analyze the cloud infrastructure needs of the Joint Staff. Participate to selection and deployment of cloud solutions, software factory design, and underlying infrastructure.
  • Design and implement private cloud infrastructure. Ensure full integration with hybrid cloud platform management layer, identity management and R&D infrastructure.
  • Work closely with other engineering teams as the enterprise liaison. Support the organization in maturing the infrastructure into a fully automated, service-oriented, hybrid IT.
  • Work with automating build pipelines, migrations, security and compliance, TCP/IP networking in the cloud and on premise, automation using cloud technologies in preparation for cloud service provides such as Azure or Amazon Web Services for DoD, and ability to script or program. Define, implement and manage a cloud based infrastructure.
  • Perform tool administrative tasks and provide application design which support our platform. Address infrastructure security requirements, design systems which address sustainment. Implement an enterprise monitoring environment using industry standard technologies. Transfer knowledge via documentation and training to software development organization.
  • Establish foundation for future implementations and automation requirements in cloud environments, identify opportunities for automation and design scalable solutions. Design monitoring, dashboards, escalations and alerts. Work closely with business technology peers and management emphasizing collaboration and joint effort to ensure that the needs and expectations of organizational stake holders, business partners, external customers, and third party organizations are met and/or exceeded.
  • Chair organization wide Integrated Project teams to coordinate and collaborate with the many Joint Staff development programs and leverage those relationships to codify an enterprise cloud enabled DevSecOps solutions and paradigms such as gitOps.

Experience

  • 10+ years of combined experience in DevSecOps, Systems Engineering, Agile development methodologies and Software Engineering related roles
  • Experience leading complex teams of highly skilled technical teams
  • Experience developing and build relationships with engineers and managers alike
  • Experience designing and deploying automated provisioning of Kubernetes clusters and related infrastructure for development teams and production systems
  • Experience developing declarative build and release pipelines with on-premise and cloud DevOps Pipelines, Jenkins, or similar

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes concepts including cluster architecture, scheduling, networking, service mesh and storage
  • Solid background in Linux, Docker, and automation scripting in one or more of the following languages/tools: Bash, Terraform, Python, Ansible
  • Understanding of GitOps Continuous Deployment practices and declarative infrastructure
  • Track record of developing unit and integrate tests for IaC and custom software to verify infrastructure and service configuration and performance
  • Background configuring monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Grafana or similar telemetry tools
  • Strong practical administration skills in on-premise, public cloud and data center environments within DoD
  • Knowledge of web application Security best practices and ability to act as a liaison between Security, infrastructure and software development teams
  • Experience with industry leaders in DevSecOps providers such as Rancher, Rancher Federal, Openshift or others


Security Clearance: None
Telework - Limited

Diversity Statement

We are an EOE that values our employee's talent – regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion or other protected characteristics – Your Talent Is Our Strength .

Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and Veterans are encouraged to apply. Alion will provide a reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans who need assistance to apply. Please visit the Alion Careers site for more information. U.S. Citizenship Required for the majority of our positions.

Covid Notice

A new Federal Executive Order requires that employees of Federal contractors and subcontractors be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 8, 2021. Accordingly, as a condition of employment with Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, employees will be required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or have an approved exemption prior to starting employment.

Job ID: Alion-4r6aWVOJThIs
Employment Type: Other