D&Z Federal Division - Principal Cloud Engineer Washington D.C. Public Trust Needed

Cloud Developer is needed in Washington, United States.

Client: D&Z Federal Division

Location: Washington, DC

Contract: Temp-to-hire

Job Description

Principal Cloud Engineer is needed for a contract opportunity with SOC’s client onsite in Washington D.C.

• Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure.
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.
• Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges.
• Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams.
• Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities.
• Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including:
• Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls.
• AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53.

Job Role Specific Requirements

• 12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure – preferred experience is DevOps focused.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures.
• Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption.
• Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions.
• Experience deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs.
• Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, and load balancers.
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.
• Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies.
• Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment.
• Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure.

Additional Information

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust.

Employment Pre-requisites:

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

Estimated Salary

Estimated Min Rate: $70.11

Estimated Max Rate: $100.15