About the role

What will you do at SAIC?

Job Summary

SAIC is looking to hire a Principal Cloud Engineer to support our government

customer. This resource will be responsible for managing cloud environments,

possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection,

implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for

the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future

capacity requirements.

In addition to the duties required of a Cloud Engineer, a Cloud Engineer SME

will provides technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem

definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to

extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure.

SAIC® [http://www.saic.com/] is a premier mission integrator focused on

advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world.

Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and

civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise

IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging

technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that

modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and

inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered

in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For

more information, visit saic.com [http://www.saic.com/]. For ongoing news,

please visit our newsroom [http://www.saic.com/who-we-are/newsroom/].

Which skills does this role require?

AWSAzureKionCloudFormationInfrastructure as CodeFinOpsAWS ECSApplication Load BalancersRDSFedRAMPAgileCloud EngineeringAWS Billing ConductorCost ExplorerALBGovCloudPublic TrustOCIGCPControl TowerSystems ManagerConfig ManagerWAFCloudFrontRoute53VPCIAMTransit GatewayDevOpsProfessional Architect Certification

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