Cloud Application Architect

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Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference and help build a system that will have a positive impact in the intelligence community (IC)? Booz Allen is revolutionizing how software is developed and deployed into cloud-based systems. We are bringing in modern, innovative technology to solve our client’s most difficult problems in scaling out enterprise software development processes and services.

That is why we need you, an experienced cloud engineer, to help us design and architect the most efficient solutions that automate and shorten the time it takes to get new capabilities from development to production to support mission critical operations.

As a cloud engineer on our team, you will use your development experience to streamline our software development life cycle from development to production by leveraging the latest cloud native managed services. You will lead efforts to incorporate open-source tools, automation, and infrastructure as code using Agile methodologies to develop enterprise solutions that facilitate and reduce the barrier of getting code securely from concept into production.

As a cloud engineer, you will work with elite teams to implement continuous integration and deployment mechanisms that help reduce the speed to mission of critical applications and services to our nation’s intelligence systems. This is an opportunity to broaden your skill set into areas like Agile development, cloud-based development, containerization, and serverless while developing software that will improve national security.

Join our team as we build tools to transform the future of the IC.

• 7+ years of experience with cloud application development
• 7+ years of experience with designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining complex cloud applications at enterprise scale
• 5+ years of experience with AWS
• 5+ years of experience working with microservices and containerization, including orchestration, cluster management, and container storage, including Docker, Kubernetes, or Rancher
• 2+ years of experience developing and deploying microservice architectures
• Experience with deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux server systems in the Cloud
• Experience with scripting languages
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience in technology, or 11+ years of experience in technology in lieu of a degree
• Ability to obtain a Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA‑Security, or GSEC Certification within 6 months of start date

• Experience with developing CI / CD pipelines
• Experience with Serverless, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and SAM
• Experience with securing and hardening operating systems, applications, and containers
• Experience with application management and providing high availability and resilient solutions using methods, including clustering or failover
• Experience with application performance analysis and monitoring, including Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK), Pro met heus, and Grafana
• Experience with an Agile release methodology
• Bachelor’s degree in Technology
• Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA‑Security, or GSEC Certification
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Kubernetes Administrator Certification, or Certified Terraform Associate certification

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

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