Overview

As a Cloud Engineering Team Lead, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice as a technical project manager or team lead delivering features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7 years experience with responsibility for leading cross functional and technical teams to drive projects from conceptual design feasibility through requirements, budget, completed design, implementation, testing, and deployment.  

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include: 

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance 
• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment 
• Builds and maintains client relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams  
• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives  
• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity 
• Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer 
• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems 
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers 
• Automate and improve configuration, provisioning, deployment, and release processes 
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results 
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats 
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’ 
• Working with software developers and DevSecOps engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended 
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing 
• Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with organizational security policies and best practices  
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations  
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues 
• Leads and manages team members 
• Assists in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program 
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided 
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members

Qualifications

Required: 

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience 
• At least 7 years of total experience 
• Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments 
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems 
• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering 
• 5 Years of Experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions  
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP) 
• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket 
• 5 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment 
• 5 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration 
• 5 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration 
• 3 Years of Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics 
• At least one of the below or similar certifications:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional 
  • Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert 

Preferred: 

• MS Degree 
• Certifications:
  • SAFe Scrum Master Certification 
  • Certified Scrum Master 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills 
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred 
• Experience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby 
• Experience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes 
• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible