Overview:

Location: Springfield, VA/St. Louis, MO

Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance is required upon application for initial consideration and eligibility to obtain a CI poly if selected  This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.

Required Certification: Must have Security+ certification or DoD 8570 Level II equivalent within 90 days of hire

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting.  Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space. 

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Cloud Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment?  Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.  

Responsibilities:

What you get to do every day:

Responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support.

The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.

Maintain security requirements for operation of systems

Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)

Produce detailed documentation

Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS, and IAM

Manage and Maintain AWS WorkSpaces

Automate and optimize service deployments

Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same

Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers)

Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight

Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts

Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language

Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts

Qualifications:

Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.

Education/Experience:

Requires Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

5+ years of IT experience

Required Certification: Must have DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA

Required Skills:

Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services

Strong Troubleshooting skills at the Tier 1-3 level

Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design

Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs

CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab

Strong Knowledge of Active Directory

Windows/Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS Administration experience

Desktop support

Domain/System Administrator experience

Be a team collaborator

Desired Certifications:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Agile/SAFe

What is ideal?

Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI

Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java)

Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development

Database experience with a Postgres backend

Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl

Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, GitLab Pages, and Nexus

Knowledge of Confluence and Jira

Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Analytical and problem solving skills

Intelligence Community Experience preferred

What you can expect from us:

Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses

You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community

Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!

Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.

teKnoluxion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law. teKnoluxion does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to team members. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.  Regardless of vaccination status , personnel are required to wear masks while indoors when the CDC COVID-19 Community Level is High.