Cloud Administrator

Accelerate your career as a Cloud Administrator while supporting mission-focused customer operations. This role blends cloud administration, DevOps support, observability, and reliability engineering. You will optimize, implement, and maintain cloud-based systems; deploy and debug infrastructure; build monitoring and logging solutions; and drive cloud initiatives across distributed systems.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with programming/scripting languages (Java, Python, Bash, Ruby) for automation and operational tasks, not full-scale software development.
• Strong programming or scripting skills to interpret, modify, and implement code used for automation, tooling, and operational processes, not full application development.
• Experience with DevOps/Platforms: Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, etc.), Docker, Ansible.
• Experience utilizing DevOps tools such as GitHub and Jenkins to support CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Helm Charts.
• Experience applying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities to support provisioning, configuration, and workflow automation of cloud environments.
• Experience working with open-source technologies in support of system operations, configuration, automation, and platform maintenance.
• Experience implementing, configuring, and maintaining observability capabilities to support operational reliability, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Logstash, Icinga).
• Experience analyzing system performance, reviewing telemetry data, detecting anomalies, and identifying areas for reliability improvements.
• Experience troubleshooting incidents, participating in on-call rotations, and contributing to post-incident reviews.
• Experience managing cloud lifecycle operations such as patching, vulnerability remediation, scaling and resource management within cloud environments.
• Experience managing TLS/SSL certificate lifecycles, including issuance, renewal, rotation, and integration with cloud services.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues, while reviewing existing systems and recommending improvements for performance and operational efficiency.
• Experience updating system maintenance and support documentation, including standard operating procedures (SOPs), runbooks, and technical design specifications used by operations team members and the customer.
• Strong understanding of web services and API concepts, including REST, and how these interfaces enable communication and integration across cloud-hosted systems.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum teams to support cloud operations, contribute to planning activities, and effectively collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Experience collaborating with customer teams to provide cloud operational support, address technical needs, and recommend solutions aligned with customer requirements.
• Experience applying compliance, authentication, authorization, access control, and operational governance practices across cloud-hosted systems.
• Familiarity with Assessment & Authorization (A&A) processes and associated artifact collection workflows.

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Experience: 8+ years.
• Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Location: Herndon, VA – On Customer Site.
• US Citizenship Required.

Benefits:

• 401K with company match.
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.