Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

The role

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Cloud / System Engineering Lead to provide engineering leadership for cloud operations, enterprise systems, infrastructure modernization, service restoration, and component lifecycle activities supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

Nice to have

Experience leading cloud or systems-engineering activities in a federal or Department of Defense environment.
Advanced experience designing, implementing, administering, and troubleshooting Amazon Web Services environments.
Experience with AWS GovCloud or other Government-authorized cloud environments.
Experience with Amazon VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, AWS Certificate Manager, compute, storage, monitoring, and security services.
Experience designing secure hybrid connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA, continuity, and remote environments.
Experience developing highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures.
Experience supporting cloud and enterprise-system outages, service restoration, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
Experience planning and executing cloud migrations, infrastructure refreshes, component upgrades, and system-modernization activities.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management technologies.
Experience developing automation scripts and operational tooling using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent technologies.
Experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation, or comparable virtualization and software-defined data-center technologies.
Experience with backup, restoration, disaster recovery, high availability, fault tolerance, and continuity-of-operations solutions.
Experience engineering DNS, load balancing, API connectivity, certificates, identity integration, and network-security controls.
Knowledge of DISA STIGs, DoD RMF, NIST security controls, IAVA requirements, CND Directives, and ATO support.
Experience with cloud monitoring, logging, performance management, observability, cost optimization, and capacity planning.
Experience developing architecture diagrams, engineering designs, concepts of operations, service-design packages, implementation plans, and standard operating procedures.
Additional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified Security, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Azure Administrator, VMware certification, or equivalent credentials.
ITIL Foundation or higher certification.
Strong technical leadership, architecture, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills.
Ability to coordinate multiple engineering, modernization, outage, migration, and lifecycle activities simultaneously.

The Cloud / System Engineering Lead will

Lead engineering support for cloud operations, enterprise systems, hybrid-cloud services, and associated infrastructure.
Architect, design, implement, maintain, and optimize secure cloud solutions aligned with USMEPCOM operational and mission requirements.
Configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Virtual Private Clouds, subnets, routing, security groups, network access controls, and cloud connectivity.
Engineer and maintain cloud-based Domain Name System services and integrations with enterprise DNS environments.
Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot elastic load balancers and associated health checks, listener rules, certificates, and backend services.
Support API connectivity, gateways, integrations, endpoints, authentication, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Implement, renew, monitor, and troubleshoot digital certificates used by cloud, application, network, and enterprise services.
Support secure connectivity among cloud, on-premises, DISA-hosted, continuity, and remote environments.
Develop and implement high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures.
Monitor cloud availability, performance, capacity, utilization, service health, cost, and operational risk.
Identify and resolve cloud, network, API, DNS, load-balancing, certificate, compute, storage, and connectivity issues.
Provide senior technical support during cloud and enterprise-system outages.
Participate in Outage Response Team activities and coordinate technical diagnosis, mitigation, workarounds, restoration, and service validation.
Coordinate with network, systems, application, database, storage, cybersecurity, vendor, and Government teams during service restoration.
Provide root-cause-analysis input and recommend corrective and preventive actions following incidents.
Support cloud and systems installations, upgrades, migrations, component refreshes, lifecycle replacements, and modernization activities.
Develop implementation plans, migration procedures, maintenance plans, test steps, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies.
Lead technical preparation and execution for approved infrastructure changes and deployment activities.
Support server, storage, virtualization, network appliance, software, and cloud-service lifecycle management.
Ensure cloud and system components are accurately recorded in applicable asset, configuration, and lifecycle repositories.
Support equipment and software refresh, disposition, inventory-validation, and documentation activities.
Develop automation for cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, and operational maintenance.
Use Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
Support integration of cloud capabilities with software-defined data-center, VMware, continuity-of-operations, and on-premises environments.
Support workload mobility, enterprise service orchestration, automated recovery, and hybrid-cloud operations.
Design and implement backup, restoration, disaster-recovery, high-availability, and service-continuity capabilities.
Evaluate technical requirements, establish engineering priorities, develop schedules, estimate costs, and document recommended solutions.
Prepare high-level concepts of operations, architecture documents, engineering designs, configuration standards, and service-design packages.
Assess infrastructure changes for security, availability, performance, supportability, interoperability, and mission impact.
Support implementation of applicable DISA STIGs, DoD security controls, IAVAs, CND Directives, and RMF requirements.
Coordinate technical escalation and resolution with AWS, DISA, software vendors, service providers, and other third parties.
Maintain cloud architecture diagrams, system configurations, interface documentation, certificate inventories, API records, operational procedures, field guides, and standard operating procedures.
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to cloud engineers, systems engineers, administrators, and support personnel.
Recommend improvements that increase automation, resilience, scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.

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Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

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Cloud / System Engineering Lead (Senior)

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