Cloud Engineer, Journeyman

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $135k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Computer World Services

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Computer World Services is a federal-focused IT services firm that provides digital transformation, process optimization, and technology innovation to Defense and civilian federal customers. With over 30 years of hands-on experience, the company delivers enterprise-wide IT solutions and professional services, supports contract vehicles for the federal market, and emphasizes quality, compliance, and high-performance program ratings.

📋 Description

• Install, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot physical and virtual servers, Windows Server and Linux operating systems, enterprise applications, and infrastructure appliances • Administer virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, NSX, or comparable technologies • Diagnose and resolve OS, server, virtualization, appliance, storage, cloud-connectivity, and performance issues • Integrate appliances with network, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and security services • Support cloud operations and hybrid integration, including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, and certificates • Apply and test OS updates, patches, firmware, and approved configuration changes before production implementation • Stage, install, migrate, test, and document replacement components during server, virtualization, software, and appliance refreshes • Maintain asset, configuration, warranty, and lifecycle records • Develop or execute implementation plans, migration procedures, validation criteria, and rollback procedures • Participate in Outage Response Team activities, supporting diagnosis, workarounds, recovery, and service validation • Gather evidence for root-cause analysis and escalate complex issues • Configure and test backup, restoration, replication, high-availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities • Support automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tools • Configure systems to DISA STIGs and approved baselines, support remediation of IAVAs, CND Directives, and POA&M items, and collect RMF/ATO evidence • Maintain system diagrams, build documents, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides • Recommend improvements to availability, automation, and security • Work with the Cloud / System Engineering Lead, network, application, cybersecurity, and service-management teams, Government stakeholders, and vendors

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field • Minimum of six (6) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems administration, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure experience • Current professional certification relevant to systems, cloud, operating systems, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure engineering • Active Secret clearance or higher is required • Experience supporting enterprise systems or cloud infrastructure in a federal or DoD environment • Experience administering Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware technologies, including VMware Cloud Foundation • Experience supporting AWS, AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or another Government-authorized cloud environment • Experience with infrastructure refreshes, migrations, outages, service restoration, and root-cause analysis • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, or Bash • Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, and POA&M requirements • Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote position • After-hours work may be required during outages, deployments, upgrades, maintenance windows, and component-refresh activities

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