Cloud Engineer - AWS

at  IBM

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
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Your Role and Responsibilities
This is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into Amazon AWS and also provide sustainment services to support their applications. This position is for an architect to support these applications from a migration and sustainment role.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments, evaluate any architectural changes they may need, and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible.
• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network, storage, operating system, and application-level analysis.
• Amazon AWS Portal administration in support of the Army cloud customers user account management, add/modify/delete AWS resources, configuration of alerting and notifications, and general oversight of the AWS enrollment.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of customer enclaves.
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute services and technologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Clearance: * This position requires a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required) *

Required Skills:

• Senior level Cloud Engineer experience – IaaS required, some PaaS experience preferred
• Baseline knowledge of networking concepts (routing, firewall, load balancing) required; Knowledge of server technologies and application stacks preferred
• Knowledge of Amazon AWS cloud resources.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects in a fast paced environment
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack – network, storage, server, and applications
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Powershell, Bash, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM) – preferred.

Required Certifications:
Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. Amazon Certified Cloud Practioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc. strongly preferred).
Computing environment certification
Minimum Required Cloud Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – Foundational
Preferred Cloud Certification
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Any of the AWS Specialty Certifications
The ITES-3 education/experience requirements:
Intermediate level LCAT – Bachelors +5 or Associates +7
Senior level LCAT – Masters +10 or Bachelors +12

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-5 years of experience in cloud security engineering, with a focus on RHEL and SAP environments
• Expertise in building and maintaining RHEL images, specifically for SAP applications
• 3+ years of experience with developing cloud system requirements (AWS and Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Intermediate level LCAT Bachelors +5 or Associates +7
• Senior level LCAT Masters +10 or Bachelors +12

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Location StatementIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being.

• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs.

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.

• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals.
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
US Citizenship Required.
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• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments, evaluate any architectural changes they may need, and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible.
• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network, storage, operating system, and application-level analysis.
• Amazon AWS Portal administration in support of the Army cloud customers user account management, add/modify/delete AWS resources, configuration of alerting and notifications, and general oversight of the AWS enrollment.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of customer enclaves.
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute services and technologies