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Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Clearance Required)

Littleton, COOnsiteFull TimePosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Top Secret clearance
  • TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • geospatial intelligence
  • national security
  • Object-oriented programming
  • enterprise-level applications
  • Multi-tiered application development
  • microservice application development
  • AWS
  • Azure

Nice to have

  • U.S. government agencies
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Ansible
  • Puppet
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation

Role summary

North Point Technology seeks a Cloud Engineer with an active Top Secret clearance to support national security missions. The role involves developing and implementing cloud computing strategies across PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS models, designing pragmatic architectures, and utilizing dynamic scripting and programming languages. Responsibilities include overseeing cloud application design, management, and monitoring, and working with agile processes. Required skills include object-oriented programming, experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (GitLab CI, Jenkins), scripting (Python, Bash), and Linux system administration. Preferred skills include IaC, DevSecOps, and experience with U.S. government agencies.

North Point Technology is looking to hire a Cloud Engineer to support a cutting-edge geospatial intelligence and data management program serving national security missions. This position requires an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Responsibilities:

The Cloud Engineer will oversee cloud computing strategy including cloud application design, management, and monitoring, and will develop and implement product development strategies using agile processes. The role involves delivering IT solutions across PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS models, analyzing complex environments, and designing pragmatic architectures. The engineer will work across conceptual, logical, and physical hardware and software designs and develop solutions using dynamic scripting and programming languages.

Required Skills/Experience:

  • Object-oriented programming (OOP) building enterprise-level applications using established design patterns
  • Multi-tiered or microservice application development
  • Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
  • Containerization using Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
  • CI/CD pipeline implementation using GitLab CI or Jenkins
  • Shell or general-purpose scripting (e.g., Python, Bash, Perl, PowerShell)
  • Linux system administration and usage

    • Preferred Skills/Experience:

  • Experience supporting U.S. government agencies
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, or CloudFormation
  • Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes distributions
  • GitOps tooling including GitLab and ArgoCD
  • Monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or ELK Stack
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes
  • Networking fundamentals including security and firewall concepts
  • DevSecOps principles and identity and access management (IAM)
  • Building automated pipelines

    • Qualifications:

  • Active Top Secret clearance required to start; must be able to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph

    • North Point Technology is THE BEST place to work for curious-minded engineers motivated to support our country’s most crucial missions! We focus on long term projects, leveraging the latest technology in support of innovative solutions to solve our customer’s most difficult problems.

    At North Point Technology, EMPLOYEES come first! We value our employees by providing excellent compensation, benefits, and a flexible work-life balance. We strive for a close-knit and open atmosphere where the owners are always directly available to our team members.

    Come join us! Apply with North Point Technology today!

    For positions requiring a federal security clearance, your clearance level must be clearly identified on your resume.

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