Principal Cloud Engineer.

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support the AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 contract onsite in Colorado Springs, CO. The AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 contract bridges intelligence community collection architectures, capabilities, and technologies with DoD operational and tactical requirements.  This effort will deliver rapid, innovative, and cost-effective capabilities to meet warfighter needs, and will include bringing national capabilities to bear across all warfighting domains spanning intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, combat applications, battlespace awareness, command and control, multi-level security and mission programs.

The Cloud Engineer will be a part of a close team that maintains, enhances and upgrades a myriad of applications and services, in an enterprise environment. As part of the team, you will participate in implementation and maintenance of On-Prem Cloud and IT Infrastructure to support the customer.

Responsibilities:

• Provide mid to top-tier Kubernetes cloud engineering in on-prem heterogeneous environments.
• Develop and maintain automation for deployments/configuration management.
• Administer and manage multiple on-prem cloud environments.
• Monitor and remediate cloud infrastructure health, performance, and availability.
• Provide cloud operations support during exercises.
• Update cloud environments and apply DoD STIGs.
• Manage cloud infrastructure/services (Linux VMs, RKE2, Rancher, storage).
• Remediate vulnerabilities and respond to tasking orders.
• Maintain SOPs and troubleshooting guides.
• Assist teammates with infrastructure and server administration.
• Manage software installations and asset/application inventories.
• Draft/enhance documentation for problem resolution processes.
• Prepare technical justifications for hardware/software procurement.
• Execute other systems administration tasks as assigned.

SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.