Cloud Engineer

🕒 September 23

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Koniag Government Services

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1975

🏛️ Government

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

Government • Defense • Consulting

Koniag Government Services is an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) that provides technical, professional, and operational expertise to the U. S. public sector. KGS supports Defense & Intelligence, Federal Civilian, and Health customers with enterprise solutions, professional services, and operations management, and emphasizes mission-focused outcomes, contracting speed (ANC direct awards), and strategic/technology partnerships. The company positions itself as a mission partner delivering people, technology, and program management to government customers.

📋 Description

• Support a WordPress site on AWS running a Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline • Work with the cloud architect to implement, support, and maintain all environments across web assets, including lower environments • Achieve enterprise uptime, monitoring, and business continuity goals • Manage a high-traffic production WordPress environment on AWS, including traffic spikes • Establish monitoring and operational procedures to ensure business continuity • Provide infrequent production troubleshooting outside 9-to-5 hours when necessary • Maintain, support, and troubleshoot developer, testing, and pre-production environments using Kubernetes (EKS) or other AWS utilities • Collaborate with the AWS Architect, Product Owner, Scrum Master, engineers, and security engineers to define and build the initial service offering and future-release roadmap • Communicate AWS architectural trade-offs and design options to support informed Product Owner decisions • Participate in coordinating and implementing solutions supporting the AWS Cloud • Implement proof-of-concepts and pilots, develop operational support plans, and create solution documentation and implementation plans • Build and implement cloud infrastructure as the first field of production support calls • Engineer and design solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS • Run risk logs and collaborate with the ISSO and System Owner to manage risk • Serve as the main point of contact for responses to Common Vulnerability Reports • Document system boundaries, install technology controls, and provide supporting evidence • Recommend solutions meeting security regulations, controls, and policies • Install, configure, and test cloud services and third-party services/software • Determine how to leverage cloud-provider services and identify gaps requiring other tools, software, or third-party services • Assess system security controls, validate implementation, and identify weaknesses • Perform continuous monitoring using security solutions and tools • Conduct security impact assessments for proposed environmental changes • Identify innovative ways to automate security management, monitoring, and related processes to reduce risk and costs • Partner with development and operations teams to develop automation solutions and custom modules, troubleshoot automation issues, and move projects forward

🎯 Requirements

• Position is remote • Must be able to obtain a Public Trust • Kubernetes and understanding traffic patterns for a high-traffic website running a Content Management System preferred • Knowledge of Amazon Web Services infrastructure and services, including Route53, CloudFormation, OpenSearch, Kinesis Firehose, Config, EKS, WAF, CloudFront, EC2 and EBS, RDS, ALB, Certificate Manager, S3, Secrets Manager, Virtual Private Cloud, Lambda, Inspector, Key Management Service, ElasticCache, SES, CloudShell, ECR, CloudWatch, SNS, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail • Experience managing and deploying pipeline solutions and containerized applications using tools such as Argo Workflows, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or Bitbucket Pipelines • Experience building and supporting Infrastructure as Code using tools such as AWS CDK, ACK, CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Salt, or Chef • Proven knowledge of PowerShell and ability to build and understand logical scripts using if/else, foreach, and try/catch statements • Deep understanding of IaaS, PaaS, and serverless cloud services • Ability to research, analyze, design, propose, and support solutions appropriate for business and technology strategies • Ability to design data, system, and component architectures and communicate them in simple language to executive leadership • Experience with Agile methodologies, especially TDD and Scrum; Kanban is a plus • Experience with LEMP and LAMP stacks, WordPress installation and configuration, MySQL performance and scaling, ElasticPress, Elasticsearch, ELK stack, Git, and Bitbucket • Knowledge of DevOps lifecycle and process improvement strategies • Knowledge of Change and Configuration Management best practices • Bachelor of Science in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or related IT/security field and 5 years of professional experience in IT/network engineering, cloud, security engineering, system administration, or security operations • 7 years of experience in a security-related role with FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST SP 800-53 • Ability to communicate contributions involving application controls, technical leads, security findings, Common Vulnerability Reports, Security Impact Assessments, and Authorization-To-Operate support • Experience with Okta and/or Keycloak application integrations • Experience with networking for web applications on AWS, Route53, and Certificate Manager • Experience managing OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including instance provisioning, dashboard design for public-traffic WAF data via Kinesis Firehose, and WordPress web search capability • AWS, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH, CCSK, CCSP, or related security certifications are nice to have • Relevant bachelor’s degree or similar experience • Experience with vulnerability management, incident detection, event/audit collection and analysis, and network and web application firewalls • Experience with federal government system Certification and Accreditation for FISMA compliance with NIST 800-37 • Experience with Security Test and Evaluation of federal government systems • FITSP Certification or equivalent • Knowledge of FISMA, OMB Circular A-130, and NIST

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Paid time off • Paid parental leave • Life and disability insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Commuter benefits • Tuition reimbursement

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