Intermediate Cloud Engineer (Redstone Arsenal)

Location: Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
Clearance Required: Active DoD Secret Security Clearance
Travel Required: Up to 10%

LaunchTech is a veteran-owned company that prides itself on delivering service before self and excellence in all we do. We are seeking dynamic professionals who embody our core values of Integrity, Commitment, and Excellence to join our growing Crew in support of our customers across the federal, state, and commercial markets.

We are seeking an Intermediate Cloud Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Engineer, manage, and support cloud infrastructure products and stacks

• Understand principals supporting Cloud infrastructure components including compute, network, and storage

• Understand principals supporting application workloads within the Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services environments

• Partner with existing enterprise IT organization to integrate cloud infrastructure/network environment with corporate infrastructure / data center environment

• Experience using Cameo or other model-based system engineering (MBSE) tools to understand and elaborate requirements, create model designs using industry standard languages (UML, SysML, AUTOSAR, DoDAF, MODAF, UPDM)

• Validate functionality early in development, and automate delivery of high structured products

• Prototype, simulate and execute designs for early validation

• Design standardized and reusable services that enable its development and/or business customers to achieve the organization's requirements for speed, resiliency, performance, repeatable and security

• Engineer, implement, and continuously improve the quality of standardized and reusable services offered by the cloud services team to its development and/or business customers

• Provide approved templates, images, and other reusable artifacts to enable consumption of standardized and reusable services by customers

• Ensure all services and enablement artifacts are available, secure, and continuously improved throughout their lifecycle; addressing any service issues that impact development and/or business customers

• Support and complete requests for operational support to include communicating level of effort and status to cloud leadership team

The successful candidate will:

• Have excellent written and oral communication with the ability to communicate collaboratively in front of a whiteboard and senior leadership

What You Bring

Basic Requirements:

• Must have 12, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience

  • May be reduced with completion of advanced education

• Must have 6, or more, years of directly related experience as it relates to cloud and on premise infrastructure engineering and support

• Must have 1, or more, years of experience working in a management or leadership role

• Must have a current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (ie Security+)

• Must have an active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Desired Requirements:

• Have experience with infrastructure-as-a-service platforms: AWS, Azure, Soft Layer, OpenStack, etc…

• Have Platform-as-a-service experience

• Have an understanding of Mission Landing Zones (MLZ)

• Have experience with Cross Domain Solutions (CDS)

• Have experience with configuration management and automation tools

• Basic understanding of application development using Github or Bitbucket

• Basic understanding of containers and container scheduling and management platforms such as: Docker, rkt, Mesos, or Kubernetes

• Have experience managing traditional enterprise platforms for compute, network, and storage

• Have experience with Cameo or other model-based system engineering tools

• Have experience managing traditional enterprise platforms for application runtimes, integration middleware, and relational database

• Have a current IASE Level II certification

Why LaunchTech?

LaunchTech is built on a single standard: Excellence, Period.
Join a mission-driven engineering team building secure and scalable cloud infrastructure supporting critical national defense systems.

We offer:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

• 401(k) with company match

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Mission-driven work with opportunities to grow

• And more

Ready to Join the LaunchTech Crew?

LaunchTech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, protected veteran status, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, age, pregnancy, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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