Cloud Engineer - SME

Cloud Engineer - SME at TRIAEM LLC

• Assist the PEO Management staff, Program Managers and Team members as a subject matter expert on cloud engineering, architecture and management.
• Manage the overall Mission Domain cloud architecture, deployments, and operations across the compendium of AGENCY Mission Domain‑related programs, projects, pilots and initiatives.
• Work with the AGENCY PEO team to manage/plan migrations and/or transitions to, from, and between cloud environments.
• Coordinate cloud activities between AGENCY PEO and other organizations to ensure alignment with NGA Tech Strategies, standards and practices.
• Coordinate with external entities to ensure AGENCY Mission Domain cloud efforts are supported at the larger mission / enterprise level.
• Maintain awareness of cloud services, solutions, and approved offerings available to NGA.
• Assist AGENCY PEO Program Managers with cloud architecture planning per program.
• Evaluate the AGENCY Mission Domain cloud services, architecture and environments to identify areas or opportunities to improve costs, operational efficiencies and performance.
• Produce and manage cloud‑related artifacts, specifications, and requirements as required by AGENCY PEO.
• Provide guidance and direction to establish items such as new VPC, EC2, RDS, etc.
• Determine which cloud offerings are best suited for individual system deployments.
• Work with the business office, program manager, product owners to establish development, test and/or operations budgets for projects running in the cloud.
• Provide monthly evaluations and recommendations for cloud efficiency to Program Managers.
• Request new services from the NGA Cloud PMO for services unavailable but beneficial to AGENCY Mission Domain.
• Brief internal and external stakeholders to AGENCY PEO.
• Establish and implement cost and spend tracking and budgets for each cloud environment and project/office.
• Coordinate Mission Domain cloud transitions to ensure mission continuity.
• Assist PMs with onboarding new vendors and transitioning systems/services between clouds.
• Produce and manage cloud guidance, standards and procedures.
• Establish and manage cloud evaluations, processes and metrics.
• Maintain and update the status of individual cloud entities.
• Recommend actions for contractors and monitor implementation status.
• Provide requirements to NGA Cloud team, Dev Corps and other providers.
• Support outage investigation and resolution.
• Recommend improvements to Dev Ops processes.
• Provide requested documentation.
• Create and prioritize transition plans and schedules.
• Document Weekly Activity Report (WAR) inputs.
• Provide briefings and reporting activities.
• Ensure Authorization to Operate (ATO) with AGENCY PEO Security and address vulnerabilities.
• Maintain cost and spend tracking per cloud environment.

• 2 years of experience working with the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) community and its functions.
• 2 years of experience deploying and managing systems/services within Amazon Web Services.
• Years of experience identifying and documenting cloud requirements and coordinating with cloud providers.
• 2 years of experience implementing, configuring and managing cloud development pipelines and automated deployment processes.

• Experience working with other IC cloud environments:
  Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM.
• Experience with Dev Sec Ops  tools (e.g., Chef, Sonar Qube, Puppet, Jenkins, Kubernetes/Docker).
• Experience working in a classified cloud environment.

• TS/SCI

• St. Louis, MO

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Defense and Space Manufacturing

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