Cloud Engineer at Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) in Anchorage, AK

Job description

• The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
• Applicants will be notified via phone or email within ten (10) business days of submittal.

Responsibilities

• Develop architecture for Cloud environments.
• Promote DevOps engineering principles throughout the portfolio.
• Assess cloud architecture for scalability, security, resilience, and mission alignment.
• Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative technical solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems, driving data- driven decisions.
• Evaluate the analytics from the cloud environment to make recommendations for improvements and optimization.
• Provide technical advisory to leadership, engineers, and cybersecurity SMEs.
• Ensure cloud solutions are secure, interoperable, and compliant with engineering, cybersecurity, and program requirements.
• Build out solutions that monitor performance and deliver capabilities such as data interfaces, generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and workflows.
• Use of systems engineering practices such as digital twin, modeling, and simulation to improve the systems of systems technology stack.

Requirements

• Education Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree or seven years of equivalent experience
• Seven years of experience in all aspects of cloud computing (compute, storage, platforms, data, and security).
• Proven track record in implementing large-scale cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design, and implementations, including IaaS and PaaS.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must have or be able to attain a SECRET security clearance.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure, Oracle, or Google Cloud, with experience in large-scale deployments.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud cost optimization techniques.
• Experience in one or more automation languages (CLI, Python, Ruby, PowerShell).
• Strong knowledge of Direct Connect, Private Link, VPN and other Public Cloud connectivity solutions.
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure automation, CI/CD, networking, storage, and cloud-based delivery models.
• Strong knowledge in networking and web standards such as DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, web security & firewalls.
• Highly experienced in autoscaling, load balancing and DR cloud computing models.
• Experience in SSO/Federation.
• Working knowledge of configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet & Ansible).
• Thorough understanding of Cloud native, vendor agnostic & cloud ready app development.
• Thorough understanding of Cloud Governance.
• Strong working knowledge in cloud monitoring tools, application performance monitoring tools and operational dashboarding.
• Agile development experience.
• Active SECRET security clearance.

Skills

Required

• Experience in SSO/Federation.

Preferred

• Agile development experience.