What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer position at Augustine Consulting, Inc.?
Augustine Consulting, Inc. is a Woman-Owned Small Business professional services provider of engineering and technical services to the United States Government. We seek an experienced, self-starting Cloud Engineer to serve as a part of the Company’s team that supports our Soldier Integration Facility.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with a team of Engineers to architect and deliver AWS and AZURE solutions.
- Perform migration, modernization of custom developed applications, products to an enterprise cloud environment, including product CI/CD pipelines.
- Work with the customer to integrate PaaS cloud architectures into their existing environment and edge architectures.
- Work with the Software Engineers to ensure that the architecture will meet requirements of the proposed applications.
- Provide support for troubleshooting and administration.
- Ensure security compliance in deployed architectures.
- Conduct audits of customer current architecture solutions and recommend changes as needed to meet requirements.
- Provide expertise in high availability, contingency planning, and automated provisioning.
- Support and advise customer on cloud initiatives including assessment, migration and modernization.
A Cloud Engineer who fits our team is:
- Dynamic: contributes energy and enthusiasm to our daily tasks, to the team’s interactions, and to the Company’s mission.
- Thorough: possesses an unparalleled work ethic; produces complete, even polished products; persistent; mission-focused; asks “Why?” as often as necessary to get to the root of the matter.
- Mature: respects others’ opinions, beliefs, and culture; listens to ideas, shares thoughts, and works independently and together to contribute insights to the company’s leaders.
- Forthright: speaks with conviction; argues based on understanding, respectfully.
- Inquisitive: seeks deeper explanations of how systems work, not the surface-level description of the actors involved; goes beyond “stick-fetching” to connect the unconnected.
- Timely: shows up, ready to think, prepared to get on with the day’s assignments; contributes analytical insights that meet time-sensitive, reasonable requests.
- Honest: knows what’s right, what’s legal, what’s appropriate; acts accordingly.
Required Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizen.
- Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance.
- Associates degree with 12 years of relevant experience or, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline and five (5) years of relevant experience.
- Security certification or obtain within 90 days of employment.
- Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, or Azure Fundamentals within 90 days of employment.
- 2 years’ AWS/AZURE experience in a solutions delivery or administrative role.
- 2 years’ experience with cloud frameworks, services, and technologies.
- Familiar with cloud service delivery models.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience working with stakeholders and development teams.
- Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing to convey IT and cloud technologies.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and contributing to technical documentation.
- Ability to travel to customer locations and supporting customer engagement locations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 years’ experience working within a DevSecOps/DevOps environment, utilizing AWS or AZURE services, solutions, and provisioning/automating infrastructure, services, and tools in a DoD environment.
- Certified Architecture Associate for AWS or AZURE.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Ansible automation.
- Ability to work within a collaborative, geographically dispersed team in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
Augustine Consulting, Inc. offers a robust benefits package which includes:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Group Life and Voluntary Life Insurance plans
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition and Professional Development Reimbursement Program
Augustine Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.
