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What will you do at Rubicon Grp, LLC?

Title: Cloud Engineer

Location: Alexandria, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Description

The Cloud Engineer provides technical cloud engineering delivery leadership supporting a WAN/LAN transformation driven by a Telco-based approach. Responsible for designing, developing, and collaborating on new initiatives to increase customer network stability, reliability, and interoperability using a Hybrid and Multi-cloud architecture and a GitOps approach.

Job Details:

* Match customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF space

* Implement, maintain, and design hybrid multi-cloud environments

* Design, develop, build, and deploy highly scalable, fault-tolerant, elastic and secure cloud-based and distributed services

* Lead decisions about cloud, non-cloud, and hybrid environments

* Administer prototype environments to compare other architectures and recommend styles that balance competing tradeoffs

* Document cloud environments for internal and customer needs (architecture, costs, CI/CD design, testing, etc.)

* Build end-to-end user service-oriented products, testing and integrating them with a mixture of distributed COTS and Open Source custom applications

* Work with various cloud-based architectures (public, private, and hybrid)

* Integrate external and internal cloud systems with non-cloud on-premise networks, allowing for secure communication between the systems in support of WAN and LAN transformation efforts

Requirements

* Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in an area applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree
* Minimum of eight (8) years of directly related experience in addition to education level
* Experience in WAN/LAN, Telco, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments
* Experience with containerization platforms and cloud-native technologies
* Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable
* Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
* Background in Linux/Unix administration
* Experience with working in DoD environments and with the authorization process
* Knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevSecOps for designing, developing, and delivering using appropriate automation techniques or tools
* Ability to work through challenging security requirements and maintain compliance
* Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT/IAM III certification; AWS Cloud OR Microsoft Azure OR VMWare OR Red Hat OpenShift desired
* Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud EngineeringHybrid Multi-cloud ArchitectureGitOpsVNF/CNFTerraformAnsibleLinux/Unix AdministrationDevSecOpsAgile MethodologiesContainerizationWAN/LAN TransformationCI/CDCloud EngineerTS/SCICI PolygraphWAN/LANTelcoHybrid CloudMulti-cloudVNFCNFLinuxUnixDoDAgileDoD 8570IAT IIIIAM IIIAWSMicrosoft AzureVMWareRed Hat OpenShiftInfrastructure as CodeDistributed ServicesNetwork StabilitySecurity ComplianceAzurePrototyping

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