Unissant
Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort.
Position Summary We are seeking a
Cloud Engineer
to join our team in supporting our federal customer. The ideal candidate excels in DevSecOps automation, is proficient in GitLab, Jira/Confluence, GitLab CI pipelines, Kubernetes, Harness, ArgoCD, Docker, Dynatrace/AppDynamics, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana and is committed to securing and streamlining software delivery and infrastructure.
*This position is contingent upon contract award.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Develop, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Harness, enabling secure, efficient software delivery.
Apply DevSecOps principles, continuous integration, security automation, and compliance enforcement in federal or secure environments.
Manage version control (Git), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and integrate security controls into delivery pipelines.
Design and manage GitOps pipelines leveraging ArgoCD for consistent, auditable, and declarative infrastructure and application deployments.
Integrate security best practices into all phases of the DevOps lifecycle, performing automated security testing and compliance checks.
Collaborate with software developers, data scientists, and system engineers to enforce DevSecOps standards, streamline deployment, and remediate vulnerabilities.
Ensure operational resiliency, scalability, and maintainability of cloud-based or hybrid environments supporting modernization goals.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance, security, and health of infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
Maintain documentation, provide training, and promote best practices among multidisciplinary teams; design, build and maintain CI/CD, testing, and operations infrastructure.
Develop custom tools and automation through programming and scripting.
Proactively identify areas to drive automation across platforms.
Develop innovative strategies, processes, automation, and fail‑over experience.
Design and set up new large cloud clusters.
Provide support to implement Change/Service Requests per application needs.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, primarily using Terraform.
Work Experience and Job Skills Required
7-10 years of experience in a related field.
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization and cloud computing.
CI/CD automation using GitLab, Jenkins/Harness/ArgoCD Continuous Delivery and GitOps workflows deploying to Kubernetes.
Prefer Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform for cloud and hybrid infrastructure provisioning.
Experience managing AWS services such as EC2, ECS, ECR, EKS, NLB, ALB, RDS, S3, Kafka, Cloud monitoring services, VPC and other network layers.
Experience with monitoring and log‑aggregating frameworks such as Dynatrace, Elasticsearch.
Experience migrating applications from on‑premises to cloud.
Knowledge of object‑oriented programming and concepts (Java, C++, C#, Python).
Experience in configuration management technologies such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.
Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management and maintenance of large cloud‑hosted systems; including auto‑scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines.
Experience with containers and orchestration services like Kubernetes, Docker etc.
Good understanding of cloud security and best practices.
Preferred
Prior experience supporting federal government agencies, particularly with Homeland Security.
Familiarity with system modernization, supply chain risk analysis, or related domains.
Knowledge of common cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Helm, and automated monitoring frameworks.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field required.
Certificates, Licenses and Registrations
AWS or DevOps/DevSecOps certifications preferred.
This federal program requires the candidate to be a United States Citizen.
Must have an active DHS clearance.
Communication Skills
Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
Ability to convey technical information to non‑technical individuals.
Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Travel
Primarily a remote work environment.
Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
May be required to lift up to 10 pounds.
Flexible in working extended hours.
Legal and EEO Statement Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)
Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre‑employment screening.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.
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Position Summary We are seeking a
Cloud Engineer
to join our team in supporting our federal customer. The ideal candidate excels in DevSecOps automation, is proficient in GitLab, Jira/Confluence, GitLab CI pipelines, Kubernetes, Harness, ArgoCD, Docker, Dynatrace/AppDynamics, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana and is committed to securing and streamlining software delivery and infrastructure.
*This position is contingent upon contract award.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Develop, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Harness, enabling secure, efficient software delivery.
Apply DevSecOps principles, continuous integration, security automation, and compliance enforcement in federal or secure environments.
Manage version control (Git), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and integrate security controls into delivery pipelines.
Design and manage GitOps pipelines leveraging ArgoCD for consistent, auditable, and declarative infrastructure and application deployments.
Integrate security best practices into all phases of the DevOps lifecycle, performing automated security testing and compliance checks.
Collaborate with software developers, data scientists, and system engineers to enforce DevSecOps standards, streamline deployment, and remediate vulnerabilities.
Ensure operational resiliency, scalability, and maintainability of cloud-based or hybrid environments supporting modernization goals.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance, security, and health of infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
Maintain documentation, provide training, and promote best practices among multidisciplinary teams; design, build and maintain CI/CD, testing, and operations infrastructure.
Develop custom tools and automation through programming and scripting.
Proactively identify areas to drive automation across platforms.
Develop innovative strategies, processes, automation, and fail‑over experience.
Design and set up new large cloud clusters.
Provide support to implement Change/Service Requests per application needs.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, primarily using Terraform.
Work Experience and Job Skills Required
7-10 years of experience in a related field.
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization and cloud computing.
CI/CD automation using GitLab, Jenkins/Harness/ArgoCD Continuous Delivery and GitOps workflows deploying to Kubernetes.
Prefer Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform for cloud and hybrid infrastructure provisioning.
Experience managing AWS services such as EC2, ECS, ECR, EKS, NLB, ALB, RDS, S3, Kafka, Cloud monitoring services, VPC and other network layers.
Experience with monitoring and log‑aggregating frameworks such as Dynatrace, Elasticsearch.
Experience migrating applications from on‑premises to cloud.
Knowledge of object‑oriented programming and concepts (Java, C++, C#, Python).
Experience in configuration management technologies such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.
Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management and maintenance of large cloud‑hosted systems; including auto‑scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines.
Experience with containers and orchestration services like Kubernetes, Docker etc.
Good understanding of cloud security and best practices.
Preferred
Prior experience supporting federal government agencies, particularly with Homeland Security.
Familiarity with system modernization, supply chain risk analysis, or related domains.
Knowledge of common cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Helm, and automated monitoring frameworks.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field required.
Certificates, Licenses and Registrations
AWS or DevOps/DevSecOps certifications preferred.
This federal program requires the candidate to be a United States Citizen.
Must have an active DHS clearance.
Communication Skills
Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
Ability to convey technical information to non‑technical individuals.
Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Travel
Primarily a remote work environment.
Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
May be required to lift up to 10 pounds.
Flexible in working extended hours.
Legal and EEO Statement Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)
Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre‑employment screening.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.
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