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 Cloud Engineer to serve as part of ACI’s Government Program that supports Product Management Integrated Visual Augmentation System (PdM IVAS).
Duties And Responsibilities
Duties And Responsibilities
- Audits customer’s architecture solutions and recommend changes needed to meet requirements.
- Works with a team of Engineers to architect, modernize, and deliver AWS and AZURE solutions.
- Migrates applications and products to an enterprise cloud environment and maintains continuous integration (CI) / continuous deployment (CD) pipelines.
- Works with the customer to integrate Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud architectures into their existing environment and edge architectures.
- Works with Software Engineers to ensure that the architecture meets requirements of the proposed applications.
- Supports troubleshooting, administration, and security compliance for deployed architectures.
- Provides expertise in high availability, contingency planning, and automated provisioning.
- Collaborates with a cross-functional team (including Configuration Management, Cyber Security, Technical Documentation, Technical Analysis, and Software Engineering personnel) to support and enhance verification and validation (V&V) activities for augmented reality (AR) applications.
- 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.
- Security certification or obtain within 90 days of employment.
- Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner or MS Certified 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.
- Experience with Bash scripting and Linux command line.
- Familiarity with cloud service delivery models.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience working with stakeholders and development teams.
- Strong written and oral communication skills to convey IT and cloud technology concepts.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and contributing to technical documentation.
- Ability to travel to customer locations and support customer engagements.
- Ability to work with a geographically dispersed team in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- Due to the sensitive nature of this work, a US Government clearance is required, and all applicants must provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- Must currently possess or have the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
- Must possess a High School diploma and 14 years' experience or, Associate’s degree and 12 years' experience or, Bachelor’s degree and 5 years' experience or, Master’s degree and 0 years' experience.
- 2 years’ experience working within a DevSecOps environment, utilizing AWS or AZURE services, solutions, and provisioning/automating infrastructure, services, and tools in a DoD environment.
- Certified Architecture Associate for AWS or MS Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Palo Alto.
- Experience with database management.
- Experience with Ansible automation.
- Experience with virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) applications.
- Experience with Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) and Watchtower.
- Experience with Army Mission Command Systems (e.g., Nett Warrior, Joint Battle Command-Platform, etc.)
- Experience with Atlassian Software Suite including Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, and Bamboo.
- Experience with scripting and/or programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C ).
- Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio.
- 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
