Virtualization System Engineer Jobs in Illinois (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Second-61 is dedicated to serving as Vigilant Defenders, committed to protecting what matters most. They are seeking a Systems Engineer Senior to join their Cloud team, responsible for developing requirements for complex programs and providing strategic advice and technical expertise to project staff.
Responsibilities:
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency.
• Plan, design, and manage the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services.
• Ensure commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines.
• Provide specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Develop and conduct testing of cloud and virtualization systems.
• Maintain technical expertise relevant in industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.
• Evaluate and report on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services.
• May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA).
• Participate with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Make recommendations/decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensure effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of comparable experience.
• Proven track record of work experience as a cloud architect, designing and deploying cloud solutions.
• Proficient knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.
• In-depth understanding of Terraform, Terraform state management, and Cloud Formation.
• Experience with AWS Organizations, Security Control and Resource Control policies.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD automation pipelines using GitLab-ci.
• Experience troubleshooting end to end connectivity issues within DOD networking infrastructure.
• Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.).
• General knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM.
• In depth experience with AWS Cloud Formation and Stackets.
• Knowledge of AWS service logging and configuring centralized logging.
• Experience using Gitlab and Gitlab-runners.
• Experience creating, managing and updating GitLab-ci pipelines.
• Experience working with docker & podman.
• Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members.
• Position is only open to US Citizens.
• Active Department of Defense Secret Security Clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree in related field of study.
• IAT Level II certifications (Security+, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP).
• Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure.
Preferred:
• MA/MS.
• Fifteen (15) or more years of experience.
• DoD TS/SCI clearance.
• AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification.
• ITIL V4 Foundations Certification.
• Experience with F5 Big-IP devices specifically the LTM and ASM modules.
• Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway.
• Familiarity with AWS Site-to-Site Connections.
• Experience with Azure commercial cloud services.
• Knowledge of Route53 DNS.
Company:
Second-61 provides managed IT, cybersecurity, and accounting services for businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Florence, USA, with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.