[ref. d8706321] Cloud Engineer
Overview:
Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Cloud Engineer on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.
The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.
Responsibilities:
- Supports data collection from a large, complex server and network infrastructure and user base.
- Possesses a strong work ethic, be self-directed, and be a detail-oriented professional.
- Willing to learn and adapt to new, cutting-edge technologies.
- Willing to document work and participate in the customer's change procedures.
- Possesses excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised.
- Must be a team player; willing to both share knowledge and learn from others to ensure the team's success.
- Designs and defines system architecture for new or existing computer systems.
- Architects, builds, maintains Hadoop, and other cloud infrastructure
- Applies Configuration Management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
- Develops and directs the development of content for a complex and growing infrastructure. This includes use cases for Dashboards, Active Channels, Reports, Rules, Filters, Trends, and Active Lists
- Provides guidance to security analyst and network engineering staff
- Works closely with C&A Team to maintain Security requirements for Operation of IEC systems
- Supports all aspects of NCE's Security Information and Event Management initiative.
- Supports the establishment, enhancement, and continual improvement of an integrated set of correlation rules, alerts, searches, reports, and responses.
- Coordinates and conducts event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring activities for the customer's system.
- Performs routine equipment checks and preventative maintenance
- Performs systems hardening to DoD Standards
- Maintains up to date documentation of designs/configurations
- Creates shell and perl scripts to facilitate automated tasks
- Works with other Service Providers to support areas of common interest
- Works with software and hardware vendors
- Demonstrated ability to use problem solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues.
Qualifications:
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain CI Poly
Degree and Years of Experience: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.- 5+ years of experience
Required Skills:
- Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, Rackspace
- Experience with private clouds such as VMWare, OpenStack
- Experience with Hadoop
- Experience as a system architect/administrator/operator in a production environment
- Knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and/or SAAS cloud technologies.
- Knowledge of network technologies (MPLS, routing protocols, forwarding), common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
- Experience with hypervisors such as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-VSpecific Duties and Responsibilities
- Cloud platform
- Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.
- Knowledge of the associated hardware, software, and equipment
- Demonstrated ability to use problem solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues.
Desired Skills:
- Strong background in Unix, Solaris, or Windows servers
- Scripting skills
Desired Certifications:
- Professional certification in one or more specific technologies may be required, depending on job assignment
About Abile Group, Inc.:
Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients.We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise.
EEO Statement:
Abile Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.
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