Cloud Systems Engineer

L2 Cyber Solutions (L2 Cyber) has a Federal contract with the Office of Common Services (OCS), in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). OCS plans and executes common services for NOAA’s satellite, data, and information capabilities. The core responsibilities of OCS include planning, acquisition, development, integration, transition to operations, and sustainment of common ground services. OCS provides engineering and project management for ground systems/services design, development, integration and testing, migration of on-premise capabilities to a public cloud solution, and associated infrastructure.

Seeking a highly experienced Remote Cloud Systems Engineer to support a growing Cloud Services practice. In particular, the successful candidate will help drive efforts to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) and National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) cloud initiatives. These strategic cloud initiatives intend to increase the bureau's IT efficiency, improve IT delivery, and reduce costs. The candidate must have extensive experience architecting and provisioning enterprise-level Cloud services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).  

The Cloud Systems Engineer will support NESDIS satellite ground systems infrastructure and the common services they provide to our global stakeholder community. These systems and services are deemed mission-critical technologies that receive, process, disseminate, store, and archive petabytes of environmental data and information collected from space daily in support of environmental science and the global stakeholder community.  

Duties/Responsibilities: 

Seeking a highly experienced Remote Cloud Systems Engineer with expertise in GitLab, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS services. The Cloud Systems Engineer will develop architecture and lead the migration of applications to Serverless and Kubernetes based architecture that meet FISMA Moderate and High compliance requirements. He/she will work closely with the Cloud Architects, who are responsible for designing the system architecture and interface control using requirements to enhance existing and build/develop new capabilities within the AWS NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) to provide the future state of the NESDIS Ground Enterprise (NGE) with common services. This technical customer-facing role will also be accountable for the end-to-end customer experience. 

• Serve as GitLab administrator and develop Secure GitLab Pipelines and be responsible for implementing DevSecOps best practices across multiple containerized and serverless applications.
• Develop architecture and lead the migration of applications to Serverless and Kubernetes based architecture that meet FISMA Moderate and High compliance requirements.
• Administer and manage AWS Services (EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, KMS, and CloudFormation)
• Set up new processes for our AWS Government Cloud environment, including data migration, backup, and recovery. Ensuring the system is always backed up and recoverable. 
• Participate with the Information Security partners and implement cybersecurity updates to the system 
• Plan, maintain, and manage the current infrastructure environment within the federal customers' requirements, to ensure uptime and reliability (Operations & Maintenance) 
• Architect, monitor and control consumption, of AWS Government Cloud, with input from the federal engineering team 
• Implement modern ground systems and applications and underlying technology stacks 
• Contribute to all phases of system development and support with planning, analysis, modeling, simulation, testing, integration, documentation, and presentation 
• Support cloud optimization activities; performance and cost 
• Evaluate and recommend best-fit, commercially available, and FEDRAMP-compliant cloud services utilizing various cloud models (i.e., public, private, hybrid) to support NOAA's mission and specific business, technical, and security requirements. 
• Develops solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public, and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services. 
• Develop cloud engineering system strategies/solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid (on-premises / cloud) and fully cloud-hosted applications to provide an 'always on' experience 
• Ensures delivered solutions are realized in the period committed; works with project owners to size, scope, and identify risk. 
• Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for migrating on-premise applications to cloud hosting
• Develop tools and documentation to enable support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with cloud architecture. 

Required Skills/Abilities:  

The applicant needs to be hands on and proficient in GitLab administration, developing Secure GitLab Pipelines, and be responsible for implementing DevSecOps best practices across multiple containerized and serverless applications.  

• Demonstrated and advanced hands-on experience in GitLab administration and developing GitLab CI/CD pipelines, utilizing Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
• Demonstrated hands on experience in Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated hands on experience in AWS services (EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, KMS, and CloudFormation)
• Demonstrated hands on experience with Amazon Web Services, code-defined Infrastructure, configuration management tools, and CI/CD and AWS Lambda and "Serverless" systems, SQS SNS and EventBridge 
• Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. 
• Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN, and VPN technologies. 
• Experience implementing graph databases using AWS Neptune.
• Experience computing and developing enterprise Cloud Services (Iaas, PaaS, SaaS) using leading cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. It must include networking, computing, storage, database, identity management/access control, monitoring, etc. 
• Experience migrating on-premise workloads to the public or hybrid cloud environments and deploying cloud-ready applications. 
• Knowledge of Cloud development patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security, Compute, Storage, and networking) and Infrastructure as Code – Automation using Ansible, Chef, Puppet PowerShell, Terraform, etc.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments required 
• Defining optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for

Education and Experience: 

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related discipline 
  

• 4+ years of experience computing and developing enterprise Cloud Services (Iaas, PaaS, SaaS) using leading cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. It must include networking, computing, storage, database, identity management/access control, monitoring, etc. 
• 4+ years of experience migrating on-premise workloads to the public or hybrid cloud environments and deploying cloud-ready applications. 
• Preferred Certifications: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Certified Practitioner; Microsoft Systems Engineer; Systems Engineer with Google Cloud Platform: Infrastructure 

Optional Preferred Skills: 

• Experience in high-performance computing (HPC) and clusters, machine learning and artificial intelligence (ai) applications and frameworks in a cloud environment. 
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

• Non-Supervisory Role  

Benefits

• In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this role in Colorado is $120,000 - $168,000
• Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability coverage
• 401(k) w/ matching contribution up to 3%
• Education/professional development assistance
• Competitive PTO w/ additional company paid Holidays
• Remote office technology assistance 

About L2 Cyber Solutions

L2 Cyber Solutions is a Woman-Veteran owned small business that provides niche Cybersecurity Engineering & Consulting, Portfolio/Program/Project Management, Risk Management, and Assessment & Authorization services. We have been named a ColoradoBiz Top 100 Woman-Owned Company, and Top 250 Private Company - we recognize that these awards are made possible because of our employees. 

At L2 Cyber Solutions, we make our employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. L2 Cyber Solutions is an eVerify participating employer.