Title:
Cloud Engineer
We are looking for innovative, creative, and highly motivated individuals to support the strategic planning and tactical execution of various engineering efforts. Specifically, the full lifecycle of wide-ranging software and hardware projects within AF TENCAP. The ideal candidate will bring a passion for learning, the drive to innovate and a humble attitude. You will work on cutting edge projects, solving problems that most aren't even aware exist.
**Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident**
Work Location:
Colorado Springs, CO - 100% On Site
Security Clearance:
Active TS/SCI or Active TS with T5/SSBI within last two years.
Required Education:
BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or general STEM. Other degrees will be considered with relevant work experience.
Job Duties:
- Provide cloud engineering expertise to design and deliver complete mission systems (infrastructure/platform/applications/process) solutions within the cloud
- Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
- Establish applications, environment uptime, and utilization scaling parameters and metrics
- Establish standard policy and compliance metrics by which cloud environment operations will be monitored, corrective responses issued, and reported
- Establish performance and cybersecurity monitoring framework, perform continuous monitoring, and report corrective actions
- Establish and apply Zero Trust Architectures build and sustainment standards
- Establish Cloud Network interface with Load balancers, firewalls, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, Azure Active Directory (Entra), Microsoft Entra Domain Services
Minimum Qualifications:
- 6 or more years of Information Technology infrastructure experience.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure products and capabilities
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator
- Experience developing IT and cloud infrastructure
- Experience in software engineering, design architecture, analyzing computer hardware and software solutions
- Proficient in use of Infrastructure as Code (BICEP) for build of cloud platforms on Azure
- Experienced with data encryption methodologies using PKI
- Experienced in network design principles
Desired Qualifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Experience with Terraform
- Proficient in creating system diagrams using Visio or equivalent.
- Experience in system administration of Red Hat Linux 8+, Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- Experienced in containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with creating and maintaining enterprise Certification Authority (CA) using Hashicorp Vault or equivalent
- Strong analytical skills and ability to solve problems creatively
Basic Compensation: $111,300 – 166,950
The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.
Additional Compensation:
KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short term incentives, long term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
