Cloud Engineer

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Saint Louis
Posted on: May 17, 2025

Job Description:

ALTA IT has a Direct Hire position open for a Cloud Engineer.

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Clearance: Top Secret and willing to sit for CI Poly M,W, F - Work from Home
Tuesday - St. Louis, MO Office
Thursday - O'Fallon, IL Office


Primary Responsibilities Collaborates with teams in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (Authority To Operate - ATO).
Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cyber security posture.
Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections.
Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance.
Provides broad-based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and applies the experience to specific AWS cloud initiatives relating to architectural design and development.
Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and test.
Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging system outages and ticket support resolution
Advice and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% up-time
Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics including costs, computational utilization and other future business needs
Validates and manages government systems changes; create, run and validate end-to-end testing

Basic Qualifications 5+ years' experience consulting, designing and implementing distributed solutions and 3+ years' experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) including virtualization environment, network and operating system experience
Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies
Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies including: EC2, PaaS (OpenShift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.
Understanding of code baseline management
Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CloudFormation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform
Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices
Windows Domain Administrator of user accounts and group policy objects and Linux administration
Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion and ensure everything has been correctly satisfied to standard. Great attention to detail.
Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.
Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI
Requires BS degree and & 4+ years of prior relevant experience OR, MS with 2+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 6 years of additional experience in lieu of degree
Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)


Preferred Qualifications Experience with NGA cloud-based architecture
DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3)
NGA Privileged User Account (NPU)
AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certifications
Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies
Native cloud templating services like AWS Cloud Formation
Understanding of SFA organization; Aeronautical data and mission
Experience with Aeronautical datasets
Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and projects
Experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process of evaluating solution options


Work Schedule M,W, F - Work from Home
Tuesday - St. Louis, MO Office and/or NGA 2nd Street.
Thursday - O'Fallon, IL Office
*NOTE: Work schedule is approximate. As needed work location required based on tasking demands.

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