Senior Cloud Engineer

Description

• Working in an Agile process to plan your work into 2 week sprints and participate in daily scrum meetings
• Creating designs, implementation plans, operational documentation, and continual improvement of cloud services
• Conducting cloud migration assessment, planning, and migration activities for varied application sets
• Creating automation capabilities aimed at improving service delivery and gaining operational efficiencies
• Working closely with Operations teams, other team members, and application owners to solve complex technical problems related to cloud hosted systems that require escalation
• Evaluate and recommend potential cloud solutions for inclusion into 1901/Leidos service offerings

• Be a key member of a high performing Agile scrum team. Attend Agile meetings (sprint planning, daily standups, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews, etc.)
• Work with teams across 1901 Group/Leidos to understand cloud requirements for upcoming projects
• Design and implement automation through scripting and other techniques to improve operational efficiencies
• Create architectures and designs of new customers systems and solutions to meet defined requirements
• Work across the company to deliver Cloud infrastructure strategies aligned with business objectives
• Mentor junior staff on cloud computing best practices and technology to drive cloud adoption

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of IT experience in an operational role
• 4-5 years of experience with Cloud services, AWS or Azure
• AWS Certified Solution Architect, Professional (or equivalent experience)
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Ansible
• Capable of working within a team and independently
• Someone with strong problem solving and decision making ability
• Detail oriented with experience interacting with customers
• Proficient in creating technical documentation and diagram
• Travel to customer sites, including overnight travel
• Ability to provide coverage for core hours (8a to 6p) and occasional work on nights and weekends may be required during maintenance periods.
• Assessing risk of technical solution paths
• Reporting to a senior program owner
• Analyze data and form recommendations to colleagues and management