Senior Cloud Engineer - 278

Company: HII Mission Driven Innovative Solutions
Location: Reston
Posted on: November 22, 2020

Job Description:

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated Huntington Ingalls Industries is America s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII s Technical Solutions division provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet Support, Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Nuclear Environmental, and Oil Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. HII-TSD is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support our customer in Springfield, VA. The Cloud Engineer (CE) improves the reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon Web Services, building the next generation infrastructure for applications and systems, focusing on automation, availability, and performance. The CE is the internal "cloud expert" and specialist within the multi-disciplinary agile development team. The CE will manage both strategic cloud initiatives as well as immediate operational activities. The designing, building, implementing, and managing of the hybrid AWS on-prem commodity-based clouddistributive-computing infrastructure is the chief responsibility of the CE. The CE is the chief architect and administrator for the cloud hardware and software stack to include frequent reconfiguration as new or more optimal configurations are identified. The CE facilitates effective processes associated with the architecture. The CE collaborates closely with the technology team and the end user analysts to implement cutting edge big data algorithms and analytics. The CE engages in software solution planning and creation to ensure applicable cloud resources are most effectively applied. The CE identifies where processes can be optimized through automation. The CE ensures that the cloud capability is leveraged to its fullest extent and available to the maximum user base. In conjunction with the Database Engineer (DBE) and other Agile Development Team (ADT) members, the CE insures that the cloud data stores and processes are replicated based on industry best practices. The CE rapidly executes tasks and frequently iterates to insure maximum user input and feedback. The CE ensures the interoperability of the in-house capability with outside partners. The CE plans and implements big data transfer protocols, utilities, and infrastructure pipes. Essential Job Responsibilities Designs, modifies, develops, writes and implements software systems. Participates in software and systems testing, validation, and maintenance processes through test witnessing, certification of software, and other activities as directed. Provides support to senior staff on projectsprograms. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a variety of fields related to the project. This position takes direction from senior technical leadership. Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions. Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers andor hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software. Determines computer user needs analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls prepares operating instructions designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems. Ensures software standards are met. Minimum Qualifications COMPTIA Security certification or CISSP certification Proficiency in two or more of the following DevOps methods Ansible, Puppet, pure SSH Familiarity with current Agile methods Proficiency with the following Operating systems including UNIX, Linux, Windows, Cisco IOS, etc. ETL processes including document parsing techniques Networking, compute, and storage technologies NoSQL database such as Neo4J, Titan, Mongo, Cassandra, and hBase AWS Services (EC2, Network, ELB, S3EBS, etc.) Processing and managing large data sets (multi PB scale) Container configuration and implementation -Docker or similar Scripting in Python, Perl, Bash Web services environment and technologies such as XML, KML, SOAP, and JSON Proficiency in trouble-shooting in very complex distributed environments including following stack traces back to code and identifying a root cause 9 years relevant experience with Bachelors 7 years relevant experience with Masters. An additional 4 years of specific job experience with a HS diploma may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree requirement for this job. Clearance Must possess and maintain a TSSCI clearance Preferred Requirements Education Masters degree in Computer Science or related field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering) but a technical BS degree will suffice Cloud based certifications Proficiency with the following Managementtracking utilities such as Jira, Redmine, or similar Running Internet facing or Service Level Agreement (SLA'd) auto-deployed environments Real-time media protocols (Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)) Data transfer systems such NiFi Certification from an agile certified institute, International Consortium for Agile, Scaled Agile Academy, Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, International Scrum Institute, ScrumStudy, Project Management Institute - Agile Certified Practitioner, or similar XPScrum certification or training is desired Support to SOF Previous experience with technology, intelligence and cyber under the umbrella of USSOCOM Physical Requirements Adequate visual acuity and manual dexterity for meeting the requirements Software Engineer family. Huntington Ingalls Industries is an Equal OpportunityVets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.

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