Job description
Koniag Technology Solutions, a Koniag Government Services Company, is seeking an experienced
Senior Cloud Engineer with an active
Secret Clearance to support
KTS and our government customer in Arlington, VA.
We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.
Position Overview:
This opportunity offers the chance to work with the best and brightest IT minds in the Department of Defense and US Industry to implement a Defense-Wide cloud environment. The successful candidate will have current, broad technical skills surrounding large scale IT systems engineering, and cloud technologies and approaches, with the ability to serve in a technical leadership capacity in a Department of Defense wide effort.
We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.
Position Overview:
This opportunity offers the chance to work with the best and brightest IT minds in the Department of Defense and US Industry to implement a Defense-Wide cloud environment. The successful candidate will have current, broad technical skills surrounding large scale IT systems engineering, and cloud technologies and approaches, with the ability to serve in a technical leadership capacity in a Department of Defense wide effort.
The individual mush understands concern, issues, and considerations for large cloud efforts and especially associated with the supporting infrastructure. The successful candidate will serve as a technical subject matter expertise for cloud infrastructure engineering with an emphasis on modern, cloud services. A deep knowledge of DoD Systems Acquisition will be very beneficial. The successful candidate will help guide a large cloud effort from infancy through operational deployment to include application migration.
The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical advisor to the government executive overseeing this Department of Defense wide cloud effort. The successful candidate may guide more junior staff in their efforts and may lead technical discussions with government or contracted personnel from disparate backgrounds and needs to have a polished ability to communicate complex IT architecture/infrastructure issues to non-IT proficient personnel as well as to highly proficient industry leaders. The candidate must be comfortable and proficient in meeting with senior government executive customers and translating Department wide goals into actionable requirements and must be an exceptional writer.
Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:
Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Assist the Government in planning and overseeing cloud efforts on a large scale.
- Technical advisor on pros and cons of potential approaches.
- Reviews policies, procedures, analyzes data and creates reports with recommendations to improve the company functions.
- Consult with government users and gather requirements for Cloud implementations.
- Palo Alto Conf/Admin, other firewall brands are fine as long as the candidate have a strong understanding of configuration.
- Utilize AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) for creating cloud templates.
- Analyze customer’s business needs and help customer translate into technical requirements.
- Provide technical subject matter expertise on infrastructure considerations in IT System Engineering with an emphasis on modern, cloud services and application portability.
- Assist in the review, analysis, and documentation of market research materials, and make recommendations on how that analysis should inform the project direction.
- Review, draft, and update the technical portions of various documents, including acquisition, other program document, and user support documents.
- Draft, edit, and consolidate briefings and other informational documents.
- Deep knowledge of the RMF process and the ability to STIG an application.
- Present technical information in a concise manner that can be understood by non-engineers and gives decision-makers the context and key points necessary to make necessary decisions.
- Prepare white papers and informational memoranda on technical areas of interest, such as application architecture, modern software practices and tools, etc.
- Support analysis and preparatory activities for migration of applications to a new cloud environment.
- Develop technical documentation.
- Analyze and translate requirements into technical and functional specifications.
- Leading design and development activities, and providing technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
- Incorporating new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations.
- Ensuring that all control gates are met on schedule.
- Interfacing with the government regarding systems engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
- Briefings to the government as well as other key stakeholders.
- Responsible for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the systems engineering area of responsibility.
- Assist other team members in other specialties as needed to accomplish the overall mission.
Work Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- 5+ years related experience.
- Bachelor’s Degree required in a relevant field. Master’s Degree in a relevant field preferred
- Deep systems engineering comprehension of the state of the art in large scale cloud implementation and migrations in cloud environments, the infrastructure considerations, and the respective best practices and challenges.
- Powerful analytical and problem-solving skills – including the ability to develop solutions in new and creative ways.
- Ability to combine knowledge and expertise from diverse areas in new/unique ways to solve problems.
- Strong ability to lead disparate teams from different groups form consensus.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong ability to brief senior executives with little notice.
- Comfortable in a fast paced/dynamic environment.
- Ability to function in an action officer type role when needed.
- Must be a US Citizen, hold a current DoD Secret Clearance, and can obtain a DoD Top Secret Clearance.
- AWS/Azure, Google Certifications, Sec + CISSP (Preferred)
Working Environment & Conditions
This job operates in a professional office environment and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This position is primarily indoors, consistent with a standard office position and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. The incumbent is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The workload may require the incumbent to sit for extended periods of time. The incumbent must be able to read, do simple math calculations and withstand moderate amounts of stress. The incumbent must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
This job operates in a professional office environment and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This position is primarily indoors, consistent with a standard office position and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. The incumbent is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The workload may require the incumbent to sit for extended periods of time. The incumbent must be able to read, do simple math calculations and withstand moderate amounts of stress. The incumbent must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.
The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.
The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. If you require an accommodation to navigate or to apply to a position on our website, please contact Heaven Wood via e-mail at accommodations@koniag-gs.com or by calling 703-488-9377 to request accommodations.
Koniag Government Services (KGS) is an Alaska Native Owned corporation supporting the values and traditions of our native communities through an agile employee and corporate culture that delivers Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services and Operational Management to Federal Government Agencies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Koniag, we apply our proven commercial solutions to a deep knowledge of Defense and Civilian missions to provide forward leaning technical, professional, and operational solutions. KGS enables successful mission outcomes for our customers through solution-oriented business partnerships and a commitment to exceptional service delivery. We ensure long-term success with a continuous improvement approach while balancing the collective interests of our customers, employees, and native communities. For more information, please visit www.koniag-gs.com.
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