AOC AppTX Cloud Engineer SME

Description

The company is a global technology and professional services firm that serves US government, defense, and intelligence agencies, with about 26,000 staff across 50+ countries.

The AppTX team moves legacy AOC WS 10.1 and third-party applications to the cloud, delivering capability in increments with DevSecOps methods and tools. You will be the senior technical lead for the AppTX engineering and integration team, reporting to the Chief Engineer and Program Manager.

Responsibilities

• Oversee technical integration and testing against program requirements.
• Track team cost and schedule performance, and lead customer reviews and deliverables.
• Direct cross-functional engineering teams through proposal, design, and delivery of products in development and production.
• Oversee cloud migration, infrastructure, and application development in an Agile DevSecOps setting, and build the processes and infrastructure needed for continuous delivery.
• Shape cloud software architecture and solutions for moving legacy and third-party DoW weapon system applications to the cloud.
• Run cloud capabilities and their integration with Kubernetes and other technologies in every program-managed environment, keeping parity, availability, and reliability high.
• Maintain those environments and apply every security patch required by the Authority to Operate conditions.
• Set device configuration procedures that meet mission needs and security policy, manage OS updates, monitor and report status, resolve issues, and work with vendors and service providers.
• Help run core services such as Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), ArcGIS, and others the cloud platform needs.
• Lead architecture definition and trade studies, requirements analysis, CONOPs, algorithms, interface definition, container orchestration, hardware and software design, procurement, integration, and verification.
• Coordinate with functional departments on staffing, supplier relationships, and technical requirements.
• Support proposals and business development for future customer work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with 10+ years of related experience.
• 5+ years in cloud engineering, DevSecOps, or systems integration, preferably in a DoW or classified environment.
• 3+ years of hands-on work with cloud migration, Kubernetes container orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Current knowledge of network and infrastructure technologies, including cloud-native and hybrid cloud designs at IL5 and IL6.
• Demonstrated infrastructure design and engineering experience.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle processes, including configuration and change management in a DoW weapon system environment.
• Experience leading several development teams that build cloud-hosted software using Agile.
• Experience leading mixed engineering teams that include internal technical staff, government personnel, and other contractors.
• Experience presenting program material and leading teams that build CI/CD pipelines.
• Skill with Kubernetes, Istio, and service mesh technologies, plus Infrastructure as Code design and implementation.
• Experience automating deployment for older, enterprise, and legacy systems with varied technologies, and adapting hosting and management for third-party applications where source code is limited or unavailable.
• Experience with DevSecOps security practice, including fuzz, vulnerability, penetration, and misuse/abuse testing, plus security engineering analysis for baseline releases and accreditation support.
• Familiarity with large DoW C2 cloud environments, and experience planning large, multi-site enterprise deployments with high-compute, high-storage setups across CONUS and OCONUS.
• Familiarity with IL5 and IL6 cloud architectures and deployment requirements for US DoW, such as AWS GovCloud and C2S.
• Active Top Secret clearance required; TS/SCI eligibility strongly preferred.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Preferred: graduate-level degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Preferred: direct experience with DoW cloud modernization, application transformation, or C2 system-of-systems integration.
• Preferred: experience in Agile/Scrum sprints on DoW programs, and in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in classified environments.
• Highly desired: experience developing cloud architecture technical solutions, authoring proposal volumes, or supporting competitive capture for large DoW programs.
• Highly desired: experience supporting competitive proposals, technical solution narratives, oral presentations, or business development for large DoW programs.

Conditions

Listed location is Hampton, Virginia; the work site is Langley AFB, VA. Onsite work.

40 scheduled hours per week.

Travel: less than 10%.

Likely salary range $147,292 to $199,278, not a guarantee. Pay is set by experience, geographic location, and possibly contract requirements, and may fall outside this range.

Hiring includes an identity verification step using biometrics and AI; you must be on camera in virtual interviews, your photo may be taken for verification, and by proceeding you consent to use of your biometric data for identity verification and security.

Equal opportunity employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) with pre- and post-tax contributions up to IRS limits and a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible, and paid time off including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance, provided or available.
• Competitive pay.
• An AI-powered career tool that suggests career steps and learning, an internal mobility team, and a military-friendly, award-winning culture.