Principal Cloud Engineer at Allyon in Washington, Washington DC

Job Description:

Summary:



Allyon, Inc. is an established IT and Healthcare Services firm and we love what we do! It makes our day when we are able help talented individuals achieve their career goals while at the same time helping our clients build quality teams. If you are interested in joining the Allyon Team, please apply or submit your resume for review today!



Job Title:



Principal Cloud Engineer



Location:



Washington, DC



Duties & Responsibilities:



• Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure


• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions


• Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges


• Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams


• Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities


• Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including


• Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls


• AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53



Minimum Requirements:



• 12+ years experience in information technology with 8+ years of recent hands-on experience deploying/configuring workloads within AWS OR Azure


• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures


• Extensive experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including CloudFormation and Terraform


• Good understanding of DevOps best practices and experience working with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory


• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters


• Strong experience troubleshooting enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows


• Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases


• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment


• Professional Architect Certification in AWS OR Azure


• Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust



What we offer:



• Competitive pay and benefits


• 401k eligibility after 6 months including company match


Allyon, Inc. is an equal employment opportunities (EEO) employer and terms of employment are without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Allyon, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.