Cloud Architect Needed in Colorado Springs, CO

**Paying $120-130K Max Based On Experience**

Providing support as needed to government personnel for efforts associated with innovations for Space, Near Space, Space Control, Missile Defense Capabilities and information operations to the Warfighter.

Responsibilities:

Strong working experience in developing and operating cloud-based infrastructure for Government clients. Manage, administer and support daily operations of computing systems both onsite and in the cloud. Design, implement, and maintain scalable High-Available and Fault-Tolerant computing systems. Following the best cloud computing practice by utilizing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and other advanced technical cloud features. Play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the cloud and containers.

Top Skills Details:

• Experience using AWS, specifically CloudFormation (Terraform experience a plus!)
• Experience with Kubernetes & Kubernetes clusters
• Experience using IaC (Infrastructure as code)
• Prior Sys Admin experience a plus!
• Active Secret Clearance OR have the ability to obtain it

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• BS Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree with proven record of experience.
• DoD 8570 IAT II (CompTIA Security + CE) or higher.
• Computing environment certification.
• Architecting/operating innovative solutions built on AWS
• Demonstrates experience using AWS; especially AWS GovCloud.
• Design and Implement AWS architectures and environments
• 'Hands-on keyboard' AWS implementation experience across a broad range of AWS services.
• Demonstrates experience using declarative infrastructure as code development and deployment such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience with Public cloud automaton tooling and scripting experience - CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins.
• Demonstrates experience using Kubernetes and management of Docker
• Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerization - Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Amazon DocumentDB, PostgreSQL)
• Demonstrates experience of using GitLab for CI/CD.
• Strong scripting experience with Python.
• Experience with remote system administration methods (SSH, SSM, WinRM).
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory)
• Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
• Hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment)
• Solid understanding of continuous integration concepts.
• Experienced in developing test plan, test cases, baselines, and conducting end-to-end testing, especially for pipeline deployment and DEVSECOPS initiatives.

About Actalent:

Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We’re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.