Junior Cloud Engineer

Introduction
As an Application Developer you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment.  The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education tools and technology and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo an IBM company is an industry-leading award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo we specialize in providing agile software engineering user experience design cloud services and digital strategy services that address government’s most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you’ll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you’ll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times Octo is an employer of choice!

You…

As a Cloud Engineer with Octo you will join an Agile program responsible for the development maintenance security and operational support of new and existing applications. You are a cross-functional DevOps Engineer skilled in developing open source cloud-ready microservice based applications using serverless frameworks. You have a passion for high-quality reliable and maintainable code. You are agile fearless enthusiastic empathic and relentless in the pursuit of continuous improvement.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with not for our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

Program Mission…

This program will support the agency’s Information Technology mission to provide development and operational support of new and existing legacy mission-enabling applications. The team will work to modernize current applications by breaking them down into loosely coupled micro-services and leveraging a continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline to enable an agile DevOps Strategy.

Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a Technical Discipline – Computer Science Mathematics or equivalent technical degree [or the equivalent combination of education professional training or work experience].

Location: Remote DC Metro area preferred.

Clearance: ability to obtain public trust security clearance

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4+ years of hand-on experience with building infrastructure and processes that support the software development and deployment lifecycle.
• 2 years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. AWS CloudFormation Terraform Bicep)
• Experience designing and implementing highly Available architecture and design Azure Identities and Governance Storage and Compute resources Virtual Network configuration and hybrid connectivity solutions Azure policy and proactive monitoring.
• Demonstrated knowledge of developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) leveraging Terraform invoked through automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Good analytical/problem solving skills.
• Experience with Azure and serverless compute technologies.
• Experience with networking in cloud environments specifically in Azure cloud.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs.
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment.
• Ability to adapt to a changing and dynamic environment.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Hands-on technical experience in at least one of the following areas: software development system administration/deployment or cloud architecture.
• Experience with Atlassian stack (JIRA Confluence) or comparable Agile management software
• Experience with git or other source management tools
• Experience with DevSecOps GitOPS CI/CD concepts and associated tools including application building deployment automation (e.g. Gitlab Pipelines) and secrets management (e.g. Hashicorp Vault).

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Azure Certification (e.g. Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
• Experience with Cloud Native tools and processes (ex. ArgoCD Terraform LinkerD Traefik etc.)
• Understanding of government commercial and public cloud offerings and limitations.