Cloud Engineer

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Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support technical program management: With oversight, support managing the technical program, scope, schedule, budget, risks, and communication
• Deliver Agile-based technical solutions: Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions, including innovation efforts for modernization and evolution of core infrastructure, platform, and data lake house
• Maintain dashboards and documentation: Create customer-facing dashboard presentations and maintain system requirements, development process documentation, and monitor report generation and delivery
• Enhance cybersecurity and IT operations: Provide recommendations for cybersecurity and IT operations enhancements, and identify solutions and tools for an efficient, streamlined, scalable approach while maintaining high-quality service
• Collaborate on platform development: Collaborate with in-house development teams to construct and implement feature enhancements to the analytic platform with a UI/UX mindset; integrate external systems; and develop, implement, and maintain a data lake house
• Integrate datasets with ML tools: Integrate datasets with corporate machine learning tooling
• Develop scalable data solutions: Develop, implement, and maintain solutions that allow platform users to quickly understand and gain value from massive data sets

Work Environment:

• Location: On-site
• Travel Requirements: Minimal
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

• Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with a Polygraph
• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years
• Cybersecurity and IT systems: Experience with cybersecurity, IT systems, and A&A processes
• Team facilitation: Experience with facilitation across multi-contractor and staff teams
• Project collaboration: Experience collaborating with project teams or multiple entities to define project requirements and acceptance criteria
• Project monitoring: Experience monitoring project progress, identifying roadblocks, and implementing mitigation strategies
• Data pipeline engineering: Experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines for ingestion, processing, and transformation
• Data collaboration: Experience collaborating with data scientists and analysts to ensure data quality and accessibility
• Data governance: Experience building and implementing data governance policies and procedures for data integrity and security
• Cloud infrastructure: Experience with design, implementation, and management of secure and scalable cloud infrastructure solutions
• Infrastructure-as-code: Experience with implementation and management of infrastructure-as-code solutions and collaboration with development teams
• CI/CD and automation: Experience with implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automation of infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and system monitoring
• Machine learning solutions: Experience envisioning and delivering solutions to business problems using machine learning techniques, including model training, development, and lifecycle management
• Technical architecture: Experience in technical architecture expertise, including systems integration and technical leadership
• Complex environments: Proficiency in complex multi-network and security enclave environments

Desired:

• SecDevOps practices: Experience championing SecDevOps best practices for collaboration, efficiency, and quality
• RAG techniques: Experience deploying and managing solutions utilizing retrieval augmented generation techniques
• Big data tools: Experience with big data processing and analysis tools such as Splunk, SOAR, NiFi, or Cribl
• Data visualization and lake house: Experience with data visualization and data lake house technologies
• AWS environment: Experience in AWS environment networking, security, logging, administration, and provisioning
• Security and accreditation: Experience with accreditation and security, including security controls, system hardening, and compliance requirements
• Data transfer tools: Experience with data transfer tools such as NiFi or Cribl
• Scripting: Experience creating ad-hoc scripts in Python and JSON
• Network troubleshooting: Experience troubleshooting network connections or scanning
• Task tracking systems: Experience with JIRA or another ticketing system for task tracking
• DevOps lifecycle: Experience or familiarity with DevOps lifecycle and ability to coordinate requirements with development teams
• Agile methodologies: Experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies for software development
• Linux and DevOps tools: Technical proficiency in Linux system administration and DevOps tools
• Software and cloud engineering: Experience in software engineering, cloud computing, data management, and system integration
• ML frameworks: Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and deploying models in cloud environments (e.g., SageMaker)
• Data engineering: Experience with data engineering and feature engineering for big data processing and machine learning algorithms
• Cloud platforms: Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP) and best practices for cloud-based services and security
• Technology and mission alignment: Experience with technology, mission, and business systems, as well as architectural vision

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture.  These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company.  That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. 

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.