Cloud Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support the IT program a major national laboratory. This is a Cloud Computing Engineer position working in the department that leads the development, implementation, operations and management of world class Enterprise Platforms and Services while providing IT transformation leadership with Cloud-Native practices supporting a world class Department of Energy laboratory.

• The Cloud Engineer is responsible for supporting and working with Azure Commercial and Azure Government cloud offerings.
  • This includes patching, configuration, service and incident fulfillment, and capacity management.
• The role involves maintaining the integrity of cloud resources to meet established requirements for service levels, disaster recovery, business continuity, and security.
• The Cloud Engineer will coordinate and interface with customers, suppliers, and domain experts such as networking, storage, and datacenter personnel.
• The candidate should be able to solve complex problems involving the integration of a wide variety of technologies including servers, storage, networking, software, middleware, and all systems supporting the virtual environments.
• The position requires performing the full lifecycle management (analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, integration, and maintenance) of the virtualization infrastructure, including testing of new hypervisors, integration with automation front ends, and Cloud offerings.
• The role will be responsible for contributing to planning activities such as capacity scalability and robustness and must be able to quickly learn new technologies and make recommendations to solve new problems.
• Candidate can work remotely but will be required to travel to the customer’s work site several times a year.

• BS with 4 years’ experience
• In lieu of degree, 10 years’ job-related experience is applicable
• U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to obtain and maintain a security clearance
• Experience with the operations and management of cloud services
• PowerShell scripting
• Solid understanding of virtual computing and virtualization software (VMware, Hyper-v, etc)
• Solid understanding of networking and software-defined networking
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and methodologies, deployment checklists, and more

Desired skills:

• Azure, GCP, or AWS experience
• Hybrid cloud private/public integration
• Virtualization experience
• Experience with storage systems including SAN, NAS, vSAN
• Excellent communication and teaming skills
• Some programming languages experience such as C# or Java
• Active Security Clearance

About Us: 

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.