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Senior Cloud Engineer
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Job Description:
1901 Group, a Leidos company has an immediate opening for a Senior Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect located in Blacksburg, VA. Remote possible.
Position Summary:
The job of the Senior Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect to join our growing cloud engineering team to support the design, automation, and deployment of cloud infrastructure and applications.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Working in an Agile process to plan your work into 2 week sprints and participate in daily scrum meetings
- Creating designs, implementation plans, operational documentation, and continual improvement of cloud services
- Conducting cloud migration assessment, planning, and migration activities for varied application sets
- Creating automation capabilities aimed at improving service delivery and gaining operational efficiencies
- Working closely with Operations teams, other team members, and application owners to solve complex technical problems related to cloud hosted systems that require escalation
- Evaluate and recommend potential cloud solutions for inclusion into 1901/Leidos service offerings
As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will:
- Be a key member of a high performing Agile scrum team. Attend Agile meetings (sprint planning, daily standups, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews, etc.)
- Work with teams across 1901 Group/Leidos to understand cloud requirements for upcoming projects
- Design and implement automation through scripting and other techniques to improve operational efficiencies
- Create architectures and designs of new customers systems and solutions to meet defined requirements
- Work across the company to deliver Cloud infrastructure strategies aligned with business objectives
- Mentor junior staff on cloud computing best practices and technology to drive cloud adoption
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of IT experience in an operational role
- 4-5 years of experience with Cloud services, AWS or Azure
- AWS Certified Solution Architect, Professional (or equivalent experience)
- Familiar with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Ansible
- Capable of working within a team and independently
- Someone with strong problem solving and decision making ability
- Detail oriented with experience interacting with customers
- Proficient in creating technical documentation and diagram
- Travel to customer sites, including overnight travel
- Ability to provide coverage for core hours (8a to 6p) and occasional work on nights and weekends may be required during maintenance periods.
- Assessing risk of technical solution paths
- Reporting to a senior program owner
- Analyze data and form recommendations to colleagues and management
Pay Range:
Pay Range $65,000.00 - $100,000.00 - $135,000.00#Remote