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Cloud Engineer Senior Principal

SAIC, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022

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Cloud Engineer - Senior Principal

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer Senior Principal role in support of our Department of Transportation (DOT) contract for EITSS Infrastructure support. This is currently a hybrid role where the potential candidate will be required to work at DOT HQ in Washington, DC two days a week. Note that the requirement could change to a full five days. 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 should be a team player.

Job Duties:

Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure

Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions

Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges

Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams

Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities

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

Qualifications

Required Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

12+ years experience in information technology with 8+ years of recent hands-on experience deploying/configuring workloads within AWS OR Azure

Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures

Extensive experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including CloudFormation and Terraform

Good understanding of DevOps best practices and experience working with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory

Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters

Strong experience troubleshooting enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows

Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases

Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment

Professional Architect Certification in AWS OR Azure

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2507339

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability