TAD PGS, Inc.
We have an outstanding Contract to Hire position for aCloud Engineerto join a leading Company located in theWashington, DCsurrounding area.
Pay Rate: $52.41
US Citizenship is required. Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. As a Cloud engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and be a team player.
Responsibilities
Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including
Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53
Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line
Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies - preferred skills are CloudFormation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with PowerShell and Python
Supporting and completing requests for operational support, including communicating the level of effort and status to the cloud leadership team
Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting on the status of resources
Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within the agency's AWS/Azure environment
Basic Hiring Criteria
Minimum 5 years of experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud
Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting infrastructure components, including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years of total hands‑on experience in technology
Demonstrated understanding of principles configuring and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud
Desired Qualifications
Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, compute, and storage principles
Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume
Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including the use of remote APIs
Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices
AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher
Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short‑term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.
Military connected talent encouraged to apply.
VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
California Fair Chance Act
Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
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Pay Rate: $52.41
US Citizenship is required. Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. As a Cloud engineer, you'll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You'll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and be a team player.
Responsibilities
Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including
Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53
Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line
Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies - preferred skills are CloudFormation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with PowerShell and Python
Supporting and completing requests for operational support, including communicating the level of effort and status to the cloud leadership team
Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting on the status of resources
Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within the agency's AWS/Azure environment
Basic Hiring Criteria
Minimum 5 years of experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud
Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting infrastructure components, including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years of total hands‑on experience in technology
Demonstrated understanding of principles configuring and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud
Desired Qualifications
Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, compute, and storage principles
Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume
Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including the use of remote APIs
Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices
AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher
Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short‑term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.
Military connected talent encouraged to apply.
VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
California Fair Chance Act
Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
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