Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD. Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.
Key Required Skills
Systems Admin supporting Middleware, Enterprise Applications, managing complex systems/projects, workflow, technical knowledge of AWS platform and applications in AWS IaaS, PaaS, SaaS environments, understanding Network functions/team collaboration.
Position Description
- Provide engineering and operations support for the AWS CCaaS platform.
- Analyze application and platform and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
- Provide recommendations to solve technical business problems and identify opportunities and risks.
- Provide cloud architectural, platform optimization consulting expertise to technical leads, cloud engineers, and other systems architects.
- Document and review IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio.
- Provide recommendations and implementation of cloud technology standards policies and standards.
- Attend all customer technical discussions/design/development meetings and provide technical inputs to further enhance the code quality/process.
- Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position customer competitively in the marketplace with best practices.
- All other duties as assigned or directed.
Skills Requirements
FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
- Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience.
- 7+ years of experience in Ansible, Kubernetes, Containers, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and CloudFormation
- 7+ years in AWS Cloud Services such as VPC, EC2, EKS, ECR, EFS, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SQS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Watch and IAM.
- 5+ years of experience practicing AWS Cloud Computing, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, and Quality Engineering Expertise.
- Proficiency with integrating AWS applications with inhouse systems e.g., CRM, ServiceNow
- Contact center migration experience from legacy systems to cloud hosted capabilities.
- Experience working in Agile Practices (e.g. SAFE, Scrum)
- Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.
FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)
These skills will help you succeed in this position:
- Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture and design principles.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and deployment strategies.
- Experience with deploying and managing cloud-based solutions in production.
- Solid AWS Services Experience: Connect, EC2, Cloud Formation, VPC, ELB, AWS Security, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools for automation (Ansible).
- Hands-on experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby or PowerShell).
- Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk).
HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:
- Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience working in a team environment.
- Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures.
- Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.
- Design and build high-quality, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions on the AWS platform.
- Experience working in a PaaS/SaaS environments, Agile practices and service-oriented environments.
- Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment.
- Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities.
- Adept at working independently, but also in a team environment.
- Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment.
- Excellent understanding of change management, testing requirements, techniques, and tools to ensure high availability of systems.
- Prior Federal government experience
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of experience
- Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.
About The Company
Headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia, Zenius Corporation is a HUBZone-certified small business. Zenius specializes in providing Grants Management, IT Modernization, Acquisition Management, and Financial Management services to Federal agencies. Zenius is selected by Inc 5000 as one of the fastest-growing companies in the DC Metro Area award for two years in a row – 2021 and 2020. Zenius is also listed by Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas in 2021. Zenius is an awardee of 2019 Best of Leesburg winner (Business Management Consultant category). Learn more at.
Benefits
Zenius Corporation is a very employee-oriented company. Join us now and help us grow!
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays and paid time off, medical insurance including health, vision, dental insurance, 401K matching, Flexible Spending Account and flexible schedules, as per business needs. We also work with our employees on training and professional certification plans that benefit the employee.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Zenius Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Zenius complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Zenius Corporation expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.