Company Overview:

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we're consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation's most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients' missions.

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Markon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description:

Markon is seeking qualified candidates to fill a vacancy for a Cloud Engineer role within one of our Department of Defense customers in the Quantico, VA area.

Responsibilities:

• Transition existing on-premises infrastructure to a cloud architecture
• Analyze current infrastructure and business processes
• Design, Implement, and Automate environment creation
• Recommend best practice approach of transition to cloud technologies or hybrid approach
• Develop transition plan that keeps current stakeholders informed during the process
• Document procedures, plans, testing, diagrams, maintenance, training, SLAs/OLAs
• Automate creation of cloud environment using scripting tools
• Implement High Availability (HA) architecture, to maximize service uptime
• Work with current and identify future customers to ensure their mission needs will be met with minimal impact during transition
• Focus on integrating the services defined in the MCIEE Blueprint
• Migrate or re-engineer database design per requirements of analyst tools
• Install, configure, operate, and monitorCI/CD pipeline tools
• Train peers with administration/migration processes
• Train customers of new processes/procedures resulting from cloud transition

Required:

• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (Security+ CE or equivalent)
• Amazon Web Services Cloud certification is required
• Experience with available cloud services SaaS, PaaS, DaaS, and Self-Hosted, or hybrid approach
• Experience with scripting technologiessuch as python, bash, powershell
• Experience with C2S, S-C2S, AWS, Azure\MSO365 and Marine Corps Private Cloud technologies and dependencies
• Experience with auto scaling and load balancing
• Experience with DoD Cyber processes to include STIGs
• Experience with OS technologies including Windows and RedHat Linuxservers and workstations
• Experience with backup and recovery/DR solutions and processes
• Experience with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) development
• Experience with the MCISRE and Blueprint services
• Experience with ESRI Enterprise service architectures and geodatabase systems, specifically ArcGIS Portal
• Experience with FEDRAMP, NIST, RMF, and other process standards
• Experience with manual and automated security administration, remediation, and hardening (STIG reviews, group policy and permissions, system modifications based on vulnerability scans, audits, and mitigations;patch management)
• Experience implementing and supporting enterprise system monitoring toolsMS Active Directory administration to include, but not limited to, Group Policy, Account Management, Domain Controllers, etc.
• Experience with tools such as git, gitlab, sonarqube, terraform, ansible, and jenkins
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with Marine Corps processes, procedures, and interoperability requirements