Job Title: DevOps Cloud Engineer

Location: Fully Remote

Salary: DOE + full benefits

Clearance: Active Public Trust (or ability to obtain)

Company Overview

TechSur Solutions is a digital services company whose mission is to enable digital transformation for our customers improving quality and efficiency. Based in the DC metropolitan area, TechSur specializes in advanced cloud services, modernization for both IT structures and applications, leveraging Agile development, and Data Analytics. Since we were formed in August of 2016, we have supported multiple impactful and exciting government programs.

Job Responsibilities

• As a DevOps Cloud Engineer, you know how to set up cloud environments and provision computer networking, storage, and virtual networks.

• Assist the agency in development and execution of proofs of concept (POCs) and prototypes to explore and develop cloud services and loosely coupled cloud architectures.

• Collaborating with various develop teams and CSPs to design, implement and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure to support various new projects under technology modernization initiatives and modernization of the legacy systems.

• Collaborate with cloud architects and engineers specializing in Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, and Chef Software to manage server configuration for modern cloud solutions.

• Develop, deploy, and manage IT infrastructure for crucial server and network components, working with the latest tech.

• Develop and implement automated testing and deployment processes to streamline the software development lifecycle.

• Contribute to reusable cloud capabilities requirements using secure-by-design frameworks to assist in providing guardrails and playbooks for application teams.

• Build a secure multi-tenant environment leveraging multi-CSP hybrid cloud best practices as outlined in the well architected pillar's structure

o The architecture will centralize by a transit VPC that hosts all key network components. Tenant VPCs and accounts, AO on-premises, and internet access are connected to this centralized network VPC.

o Enhance and maintain the CSP account policies to maximize the consistency and automation of cloud governance for each tenant, including the ability to provide tenants the security-approved cloud services available through the CSP

• Enable rapid infrastructure provisioning and deployment of various stakeholders' immediate use cases like courts websites deployment, unified search, and additional modernization and legacy enhancement projects in pipeline.

• Maintain Security as Code and Automated Assessment Code as needed by the solution.

• Enable a Prod-like high availability multi-site replication capabilities with regulatory compliance and security framework controls aligned to appropriate JISF requirements when necessary.

• Review and recommend cost-cutting technologies and methods to increase efficiency and reduce infrastructure's overall operations and maintenance costs.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in architecting and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Knowledge of DevOps and Agile methodologies.

• Proficiency in automation tools, including Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

• Experience in automating system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, scaling, releases, and day-to-day system operations in Cloud environments.

• Familiarity with managing Git-based version control systems, including GitLab and GitHub.

• Ability to evaluate analytically and systematically problems of workflows, organization, and planning, and develop appropriate corrective action.

• Experience in producing technical reports, studies, briefing materials, information support plans, and other technical documentation as required.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code environments, including activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD.

• Proficiency in provisioning and managing infrastructure and applications in Cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience in identifying and implementing automation to improve user experience (UX).

• Scripting skills in Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby.

• Knowledge of open technologies, DevSecOps, and related Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, including Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub, and Git, Docker, or Terraform.

• Experience with system integration using various protocols, such as JSON, REST, and XML.

• Expertise with leveraging JSON, YAML, or XML for configuration.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or higher

• Preferred technical major: Computer Science