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Description:

Markon is seeking qualified candidates to fill a vacancy for a Cloud Engineer role within one of our Department of Defense customers in the Quantico, VA area.

Responsibilities:

• Transition existing on-premises infrastructure to a cloud architecture
• Analyze current infrastructure and business processes
• Design, Implement, and Automate environment creation
• Recommend best practice approach of transition to cloud technologies or hybrid approach
• Develop transition plan that keeps current stakeholders informed during the process
• Document procedures, plans, testing, diagrams, maintenance, training, SLAs/OLAs
• Automate creation of cloud environment using scripting tools
• Implement High Availability (HA) architecture, to maximize service uptime
• Work with current and identify future customers to ensure their mission needs will be met with minimal impact during transition
• Focus on integrating the services defined in the MCIEE Blueprint
• Migrate or re-engineer database design per requirements of analyst tools
• Install, configure, operate, and monitorCI/CD pipeline tools
• Train peers with administration/migration processes
• Train customers of new processes/procedures resulting from cloud transition

Required:

• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (Security+ CE or equivalent)
• Amazon Web Services Cloud certification is required
• Experience with available cloud services SaaS, PaaS, DaaS, and Self-Hosted, or hybrid approach
• Experience with scripting technologiessuch as python, bash, powershell
• Experience with C2S, S-C2S, AWS, Azure\MSO365 and Marine Corps Private Cloud technologies and dependencies
• Experience with auto scaling and load balancing
• Experience with DoD Cyber processes to include STIGs
• Experience with OS technologies including Windows and RedHat Linuxservers and workstations
• Experience with backup and recovery/DR solutions and processes
• Experience with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) development
• Experience with the MCISRE and Blueprint services
• Experience with ESRI Enterprise service architectures and geodatabase systems, specifically ArcGIS Portal
• Experience with FEDRAMP, NIST, RMF, and other process standards
• Experience with manual and automated security administration, remediation, and hardening (STIG reviews, group policy and permissions, system modifications based on vulnerability scans, audits, and mitigations;patch management)
• Experience implementing and supporting enterprise system monitoring toolsMS Active Directory administration to include, but not limited to, Group Policy, Account Management, Domain Controllers, etc.
• Experience with tools such as git, gitlab, sonarqube, terraform, ansible, and jenkins
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with Marine Corps processes, procedures, and interoperability requirements