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Overview

Work Where it Matters

Akima Systems Engineering (ASE), an Akima company, is not just another federal system support contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.

At ASE, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.

For our shareholders, ASE provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.

For our government customers, ASE delivers solutions in maritime IT, systems engineering, and integration across the Department of Defense and stands ready to help improve operational performance at a reasonable and sustainable cost.

As an ASE employee, you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.

Job Summary:

ASE is looking for a Cloud SME. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops and coordinates cloud-based Information Technology strategies and oversees implementation of integrated systems across all standard cloud service models—SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and Hybrid Cloud.

• Develops technical design, build, and implementation of AWS and Azure applications, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics.

• Understands and leverages tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Harness to create and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) build and integration pipelines.

• Understands and leverages tools such as Terraform and Puppet to build and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and associated configuration settings.

• Implements Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) toolchains using code analysis tools such as Fortify Static Code Analyzer, GitLab SAST, and SonarQube.

• Understands and leverages artifact analysis tools such as JFrog Xray and WebInspect DAST.

• Participates in all aspects of the software development lifecycle for AWS and Azure solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.

• Improves, and upgrades enterprise services, software, and hardware. Identifies, leverages, and recommends new technologies. Establishes infrastructure with required security levels.

• Understands various government architectures, business modeling practices using object-oriented UML methods, end-user requirements including publications and plans, and configuration management processes and tools.

• Performs work with a high degree of latitude. Handles the most complex issues.

• Interfaces with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders to determine their evolving needs.

• Generates the highest level of system requirements, based on the user's needs and other constraints such as cost and schedule.

• Ensures this set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined.

• Performs cost-benefit analyses to determine whether requirements are best met by manual, software, or hardware functions, making maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf or already developed components.

• Develops partitioning algorithms (and other processes) to allocate all present and foreseeable requirements into discrete partitions such that a minimum of communications is needed among partitions and between the user and the system.

• Interfaces with the design and implementation engineers and architects so that any problems arising during design or implementation can be resolved in accordance with the fundamental design concepts, and user needs and constraints.

• May act as a lead.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 8-10 years of demonstrable experience in the design of enterprise level cloud-based systems architectures and defining essential core design features.

• Experience identifying, qualifying, defending, and implementing new technologies.

• Experience taking users' vision and defining paths to evolve systems, while striving to maintain the integrity of that vision as the system is developed.

• Experience with frameworks and infrastructure automation.

• Experience with large-scale data architecture, data modeling, database design, and information systems implementation.

• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (AWS: EC2, VPC, Lambda, S3, EFS, ECR/ECS, Route53, IAM, RDS, Autoscaling, CloudTrail, CloudWatch).

• Experience with CI/CD and application build and deploy tools (Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Xray, Jira, SonarCube, Terraform).

• Experience deploying and monitoring web applications within AWS and Azure Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)

• Excellent verbal and communications skills.

• Minium Secret Clearance required.

Desired Qualifications:

• Any relevant AWS certification preferred.

• Security + certification desired.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability, or have known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us at job-assist@akima.com or 571-353-7053 (information about job applications status is not available at this contact information).

Job: Information Technology

Travel: None

Organization: ASE - Akima Systems Engineering

Clearance: SECRET

Work Type: Remote

Remote: Yes

ReqID: 2024-8885