Cloud Engineer

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·       A university degree from a nationally recognised/certified university in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) with substantial systems engineering content and 2 years of specific experience – OR - at least 4 years’ experience similar to the tasks described in this SoW and relevant industry recognized certificates.

·       Knowledge of and experience in maintaining and developing multi-account AWS cloud environments, specifically in core AWS products such as Lambda, S3, CloudTrail, ECS, EC2, and similar, as well as working according to industry best practices such as AWS’s Well Architected Framework

·       Significant experience in using Terraform to build and maintain cloud infrastructure as code, setting up CI/CD pipelines, automating containerized workloads on ECS and conditional access

·       Able to set up monitoring, logging and alerting with tools like CloudTrail and GuardDuty, and experienced in managing IAM with SSO, VPC networking, and least-privilege security controls

·       Proficient in Python and Bash and knowledge of Docker, Linux administration and Git

·       Experience within cybersecurity and/or the intelligence domain is strongly preferred but not required for this role, as is experience with Azure

·       Good communication skills, both orally and written. Able to translate complex technical topics into information conveyable to non-domain experts. Can easily cooperate with non-cloud experts and explain conducted work, as well as give and take feedback and create clear and structured documentation based on the work conducted

DUTIES/ROLE:

·       The Contractor will be responsible for conducting cloud engineering to support NATO’s cyber threat intelligence production. The Contractor must:

ü  Ensure the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of CTAB’s cloud environment, and do so in a cost-effective way, by provisioning, configuring and monitoring cloud resources using Terraform and ensure all code and work is maintainable and documented

ü  Work with data scientists, software engineers, researchers and end-users to translate their requirements into functionalities within the cloud environment, while ensuring security is front-and-centre

ü  Participate in team and branch calls as required by the team lead to give status updates on projects and developments pertinent to the Contractor’s tasks

·       Development of specialist products

ü  The Contractor shall produce the Deliverables as specified in the task order management under supervision of the NATO Project Manager. The Contractor shall submit Deliverables to the NATO Project Manager for Quality Review, test or inspection not later than the dates specified by the NATO Project Manager

ü  The Contractor shall continuously validate any deliverables with the NATO Project Manager and peers within CTAB

ü  The Contractor shall hold periodic sessions with the NATO Project Manager to make sure that the deliverables are aligned with NATO’s expectations