DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure Engineer

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary   

The Cloud, Infrastructure, DevSecOps Engineer position will focus on all aspects of design, analysis, implementation and support of systems, software or other solutions pertaining to deploying capabilities to cloud systems.  

The candidate will work within a team of software and IT engineers to build high performance, cloud based solutions. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Support the development of open architectures and applications, infrastructure, and cloud platforms to ensure they are best suited for Cloud deployment and consumption.  

• Support the adoption of Cloud best practices and supporting technologies to enable such capabilities as DevSecOps, Big Data/Analytics, AI, Micro-Services.  

• Support the architecture, design, development, troubleshoot, and implementation of cloud solutions  

• Work closely with the Information Technology Security team to ensure the applications and solutions designed and deployed are secure and compliant.  

• Effectively Interface with Customer personnel at varying organizational levels   

• Must be self-motivated and expected to work independently with minimal supervision  

• Report status on tasks and assignments  

• Must be able to generate preliminary and detailed designs as required for enhancements or modifications to existing designs, requiring the application of current industry design concepts and utilization of basic technical writing skills.  

• Must be able to perform effectively as part of a project "team".  

• Experience with several of the following tools Gitlab, SonarQube, Nexus, Twistlock/Prisma Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes (Rancher, Openshift, K3S), Linux, AWS/Azure/GCP, and Terraform. 

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field required.  

• 5+ years of hands on experience in a specific technology practice (Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Servers, Security, Windows, Linux, etc.) for both on premise and cloud resources  

• 2+ years network and operating system experience  

• 2+ years experience in container management technologies like OpenShift, AKS, EKS, Rancher, Docker  

• Experience using a source code repository such as Git, BitBucket, Mercurial, or Subversion  

• Experience using a defect management system such as Jira, Bugzilla or Fogbugz  

• Experience with Agile development methodologies   

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Preferred Skills  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  

• Well refined troubleshooting skills, ability to determine the root cause of a problem and identify and resolve systemic problems.  

• Ability to perform technical briefings to various groups and engineers  

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.  

• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  

• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.  

• Experience using  and deploying RDMS, NoSQL, or Graph databases  

• Experience managing/implementing server/clients with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Platforms and Federation Services (NetIQ, ADFS, Azure MFA, Keycloak, Red Hat SSO, Duo, SAML, etc.)  

• Experience scaling applications based on user demand.  

• Experience working with service-based architectures and Web APIs  

• IAT Level 2 Certification (e.g. Security +).  

• Experience with HTML, HTML5, CSS, XML, XSLT, and JSON.  

• Experience working and deploying on DOD networks including NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS  

• Experience with administration of CI/CD pipeline tools.  

• Administration experience on Microsoft Enterprise CA – Cert Requests/Monitoring.  

• Administration experience on Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).  

• Familiarity with Information Assurance programs.  

• Experience with writing Linux bash scripts  

• Experience with one or more of the following: Terraform, Cloud Formation, Microsoft Bicep  

• Any of the following: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP), (ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).  

• CompTIA Cloud+  

• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert  

• Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect — Professional

Security Responsibilities  

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.  Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.  All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.   

•  Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.  

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Work Environment  

• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.  

Physical Demands  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.   

• Must be able to sit down for long lengths of time.  

• Must be able to travel CONUS and to International sites 

Other Duties  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.  

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