Empowering the U.S. Coast Guard's critical operations through transformative cloud initiatives, designing advanced capabilities in cyber defense, logistics optimization, security operations, and decision intelligence
Requirements
- Minimum 6+ year of Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, Azure AD, AWS)
- Hands-on experience administering Windows Server environments, including creation, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and patching
- Strong knowledge of Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML, and related standards, procedures, and processes
- Proficient with cloud platforms and tools: AWS Console, Azure, Elastic, Ansible, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket, and various SaaS offerings
- Experience onboarding and integrating customer log data from AWS and Azure to on-premises or cloud-based analysis platforms such as Elastic or Splunk
- Skilled in supporting AWS cloud-hosted applications, including deployments, patches, security checks, maintenance, and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience with Databricks and Kafka is highly desirable
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
- Establish technical excellence by creating reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for cloud implementations
- Provide leadership and mentorship to development teams on cloud-native application design, deployment, and best practices
- Evaluate emerging technologies to assess their potential impact and align adoption with organizational goals
- Drive modernization initiatives, including large-scale cloud migrations, containerization, and microservices strategies
- Champion DevOps practices by implementing infrastructure as code, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines
- Optimize cloud performance to improve reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency of applications and services
Other
- Requires BS and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust
- Must, at a minimum, have one of these certifications: MCSE (Server), Certified AWS SysAdmin, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Dev/Associate), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified Security, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to varied audiences
- Collaborates with SMEs and security teams to define and implement secure cloud architectures
