KeyLogic is seeking a Principal Cloud Automation Engineer (AWS) to assess, design, and develop an agile, DevOps oriented, cloud-centric, requirements driven, autonomously orchestrated architectures and environments to ensure the rigor, consistency, and continued reliability of mission critical environments. This position is for an individual who fundamentally disagrees with the continued use of repetitive manual operational tasks over automated workflows, while trusting mature, automated resources to deploy any given system over manual deployment more accurately.
Responsibilities include:
- Working with the Chief Cloud Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Working to help define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision
- Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
- Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architecture
Required Skills:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- Ability to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor
- Experience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levels
- Ability to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant facts
- Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- 10+ years of professional experience in a technology related field
- 6+ years of experience in AWS
- 5+ years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous API driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments
Desired Skills:
- Experience leading teams and projects at either the Tech Lead or Product Owner level
- Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like cloud formation
- Familiarity with Identity Management (RHEL Idm, Azure Active Directory)
- Experience with scripting, Linux packages, and dependencies
- Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows
- Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories
- Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,
- Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures
- Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects
- Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
- Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field.
- Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
