Automation​/Cloud Services

Overview

Department: NIS

Employment Type: Contract / Temp

Location: MCTSSA NIS-MCSC-CA

Automation / Cloud Services

We are STAHL Companies, providing program management for its Channel of Commercial Technology companies in Government, consisting of small businesses and new technology start-ups. STAHL advocates for policies that improve government services and maintain our government's competitive advantage by bringing more technology into government programs. We advocate on behalf of our nation s innovative, new technology and small businesses looking to work with the U.S. government.

We align the voice of our small business members with advocacy for federal policy changes to make the government market more accessible to small businesses and the commercial technology ecosystem. The Channel s founding Technical Board Members include former government leaders and IT executives passionate about bringing best-of-breed technology to the government. We are seeking a skilled and experienced Automation / Cloud Services to join our team.

Successful STAHL Companies employees possess traits such as an ability to get things done, analytical thinking, creative mindset, emotional intelligence, trustworthiness, and alignment with the company s values.

Key Characteristics You are persistent, resourceful, results-oriented, and action-oriented. You constantly plan ahead and foresee issues before they occur. You are able to read quantitative data and have a thorough understanding of product management principles for data analysis and recommendations. You have strong relationship-building abilities and adaptability.

• Implement automation across all layers - infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment, testing, and operation.
• Retool infrastructure to provide an agile foundation that provides joint infrastructure management and automation framework.
• Interface directly with staff members within the organization to discuss and assess compliance with IT policies, standards and procedures and suggest opportunities for improvement.
• Build automation to configure applications, networks, and services, in a production, testing, and development environment.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to identify and automate processes to reduce technical debt, set up CI/CD pipelines, and optimize build/testing/deployment times.
• Work with testing and development teams throughout the testing life cycle ensuring timely integration.
• Commit all automation code and supporting files to source control (git and Git Lab).
• Train operations team members to use the automation the team builds.
• Configure and administer cloud technologies in hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP among others.
• Configure and administer cloud services in on-premises platforms (e.g. Azure Stack family of systems, Amazon Snow family of systems).

• Documented network and system administration experience
• Documented virtualization technology experience (e.g. VMWare, Linux, Windows, etc.)
• Experience with source control using git and Git Hub/Git Lab repositories.
• Experience leading medium to large projects by bringing together the right perspectives, identifying roadblocks, and integrating feedback from clients and team members.
• 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure IT Operations.
• 5+ years of software automation and development experience.
• 2+ years scripting language experience.
• Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I or Level II certification.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation.
• Cloud Computing certifications (e.g. Azure Administrator, AWS Associate Level Cert, etc.).
• Experience with on-premises cloud technologies (e.g. Azure Stack, Amazon Snow, etc.).
• Security Clearance:
  Active Secret clearance is required.

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in IT Operations in relation to Systems & Network Architecture, and AI/ML environments.
• Previous experience in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) or Dev Ops role.
• Experience in distributed systems design and…