Cloud Engineer - Colorado Springs, United States - KBR

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    Title:
    Cloud Engineer


    We are looking for innovative, creative, and highly motivated individuals to support the strategic planning and tactical execution of various engineering efforts.

    Specifically, the full lifecycle of wide-ranging software and hardware projects within AF TENCAP. The ideal candidate will bring a passion for learning, the drive to innovate and a humble attitude. You will work on cutting edge projects, solving problems that most aren't even aware exist.

    Work Location:
    Colorado Springs, CO - 100% On Site

    Security Clearance:
    Active TS/SCI or Active TS with T5/SSBI within last two years.

    Required Education:
    BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or general STEM. Other degrees will be considered with relevant work experience.


    Job Duties:
    Provide cloud engineering expertise to design and deliver complete mission systems (infrastructure/platform/applications/process) solutions within the cloud

    Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies

    Establish applications, environment uptime, and utilization scaling parameters and metrics

    Establish standard policy and compliance metrics by which cloud environment operations will be monitored, corrective responses issued, and reported

    Establish performance and cybersecurity monitoring framework, perform continuous monitoring, and report corrective actions

    Establish and apply Zero Trust Architectures build and sustainment standards

    Establish Cloud Network interface with Load balancers, firewalls, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, Azure Active Directory (Entra), Microsoft Entra Domain Services


    Minimum Qualifications:
    6 or more years of Information Technology infrastructure experience.

    Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure products and capabilities


    Microsoft Certified:
    Azure Administrator

    Experience developing IT and cloud infrastructure

    Experience in software engineering, design architecture, analyzing computer hardware and software solutions

    Proficient in use of Infrastructure as Code (BICEP) for build of cloud platforms on Azure

    Experienced with data encryption methodologies using PKI

    Experienced in network design principles


    Desired Qualifications:

    Microsoft Certified:
    Azure Solutions Architect Expert

    Experience with Terraform

    Proficient in creating system diagrams using Visio or equivalent.

    Experience in system administration of Red Hat Linux 8+, Microsoft Windows operating systems.

    Experienced in containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes clusters

    Experience with creating and maintaining enterprise Certification Authority (CA) using Hashicorp Vault or equivalent

    Strong analytical skills and ability to solve problems creatively

    Basic Compensation:
    $111,300 – 166,950The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.


    Additional Compensation:


    KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation.

    Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short term incentives, long term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

    KBR is an equal opportunity employer.

    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.