Cloud Solutions Consultant - TS/SCI - Radar Ground Systems 6+yrs

Cloud Solutions Arch/Eng - NRG

TULK is a leading boutique consulting firm providing technology and management consulting services to the US Federal Government. Our expert team assists Defense and National Security clients in acquiring, designing, managing, and developing advanced technology systems and business practices to advance their missions. We offer tailored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, long and short-term disability, flexible work schedules, cash bonuses, access to technology, tuition reimbursement, 401k, and more.

We are looking for applicants with a broad range of skills and interests to join our team. At TULK, we carefully match our employees with assignments that best fit their unique skill sets and career goals. If you're interested in the position below, we encourage you to apply and take the next step in your career with TULK.

Overall Assignment Description of the Cloud Solutions Architect / Engineer

The Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer will work across Cloud Ops, Security, Development, Auditing teams at NGA to design resilient, flexible, and scalable cloud solutions to support GEOINT Enterprise operations.

Duties of the Cloud Solutions Architect / Engineer

• Support the formulation, documentation, and communication of methodologies for building and operating highly available, scalable services.
• Assist in reducing and resolving production incidents (e.g. Site Reliability Engineering).
• Look for opportunities to improve all operations processes.
• Assist in the evaluation, build and modification of automation for deploying and operating production services.
• Support the creation, assessment, update and maintenance of documentation pertaining to Product Lines.
• Support the development and design of elastic, resilient and self-healing Cloud native applications and workflows.
• Assist in crafting excellent documentation for respective projects and carrying ownership for the code and the instructional tutorials of how to use it.
• Work with team members to design, architect and implement solutions across geographic locations.

Required Skills and Experience of the Cloud Solutions Architect / Engineer

• US Citizenship
• US Government issued Top Secret / SCI Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
• Three or more years of experience with cloud-based services or technologies.
• Understanding of object-oriented software with languages like Java, C++, Python or Ruby ideally in SOA applications.
• Understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks).

Desired Skills and Experience of the Senior Systems Analyst

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Certified AWS Solutions Architect
• Two or more years of demonstrated experience in Site Reliability Engineering functions.
• Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and the best practices for deploying applications to those stacks.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating in a DevSecOps.
• Experience using APIs and RESTful services.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Fabric.
• Experience with security in the cloud, such as: Intrusion, penetration, and vulnerability scanning.
• Experience with monitoring solutions, such as: ELK, Splunk, SUMO, Nagios, Prometheus.
• Experience with build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem capabilities, such as: Git, Gerrit, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Nexus.
• Understanding of industry standards for designing and implementing IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Cloud environments.
• Experience with modern container orchestration systems, such as: Kubernetes, Mesos, DC/OS, Swarm.