Lead Cloud Engineer

Full-time

Description

Position: Lead Cloud Engineer

Location: Arlington, VA- Hybrid work

Client: Federal

Clearance: Public Trust or Higher-level clearance

Certification: AWS certification

Job Description

• The Lead Cloud Engineer is responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and management of the

cloud infrastructure, defining cloud architecture standards, ensuring security and compliance, optimizing

cloud costs, and driving innovation within the cloud environment, working closely with other technical teams to

integrate cloud solutions across the enterprise.

• Key responsibilities include architecting scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure using best practices,

considering factors like cost optimization, performance and security.

• Monitors cloud usage, identifies cost savings opportunities and implements strategies to optimize cloud spend.

• Implements robust security measures, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and compliance standards.

• Expertise on leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to automate cloud infrastructure and management.

• Monitors cloud systems for performance issues, identifying bottlenecks, and troubleshoots complex

cloud-related problems.

• Deep expertise in AWS and Azure, strong understanding of cloud computing principles including, network, storage,

compute and security, experience with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, proficiency in scripting languages

like Python or PowerShell.

• The Lead Cloud Engineer has direct past experience within two (2) years of a candidate being on-board in the position.

• It is required that the Lead Cloud Engineer has the following qualifications:

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Information Systems, Management, or a related field

at time of proposal submission.

• Possess a minimum of six (6) years of recent experience providing cloud engineering support similar to the

work described PWS and compliance with industry best practices including cloud native approaches using technologies

like Containers, Kubernetes, and Microservices.

• Possess an AWS certification.

• Possesses leadership skills to manage and mentor a team of cloud engineers and strong communications and collaboration

skills to work effectively with cross functional teams within the last two (2) years.

Requirements

• Possess a minimum of six (6) years of recent experience providing cloud engineering support similar to the

work described PWS and compliance with industry best practices including cloud native approaches using technologies

like Containers, Kubernetes, and Microservices.

• Possess an AWS certification.

• Possesses leadership skills to manage and mentor a team of cloud engineers and strong communications and collaboration

skills to work effectively with cross functional teams within the last two (2) years.

About Us: CompQsoft Inc. Established in 1997, headquarters in Houston, TX and office in Leesburg, VA. CompQsoft offers a range of comprehensive Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Cloud solutions, ERP implementation, Business Intelligence, Application development, Ecommerce applications and Management consulting services.

CompQsoft is Certified CMMI Level 3 practitioner for Development and Services, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 & ISO 200001:2011 Certified. CompQsoft is a fast growing company with a strategy and methodology that is strongly focused on the success of our clients, predominantly the Federal government.

CompQsoft provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and in the working environment to all employees and applicants. CompQsoft does not take any nonmerit factors like race, color, religion, sex (gender), mental/physical disability, and age into account for purposes of recruitment, hiring and development.