Digital Service Expert - Cloud Engineer
Come do impactful work with a brilliant, motivated team.
About the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is a Principal Staff Assistant (PSA) responsible for the acceleration of the adoption of data, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate decision advantage across the Department of Defense (DoD). The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), Defense Digital Services (DDS), Chief Data Office (CDO), and forward-leaning programs of record including Advana have officially joined together to form one organization – the CDAO!
This position is being recruited as a GS-14 or GS-15, Cyber Security Engineer in the Excepted service. This position will serve under the Directorate for Digital Services formally known as the Defense Digital Services. The work that you do here will directly contribute to our national security, improve the lives of those who serve, and make an impact that spans the globe. The impact you can make here is truly phenomenal. If that excites you and you have the skills, you should apply! We are solving a diverse set of problems, and we need a diverse team to do it. The Directorate for Digital Services DDS transforms how the DoD designs, builds, buys, and deploys technology to save lives and stay ahead of our adversaries. This organization touches on a wide range of issues — from cybersecurity to climate; COVID response to data-wrangling. These complex challenges are tackled head-on by recruiting exceptional tech talent from industry and government to our talented team for a two-year term (with the option to renew for a second term).
This announcement will close on June 23rd, 2023.
Description
Join DDS and build ground-breaking applications to protect the American people and support members of the military and their families. DDS works with partners from the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Government, and our allies to tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges. DDS engineers are called upon to fix a failing system, to recommend an iterative path forward through a seemingly difficult problem, or to develop a new capability.
As a Cloud Engineer at DDS, whether you are fixing a mission critical system or fielding a new capability, you can see the real world impact of your work. DDS is hiring a talented Cloud Engineer to perform technical duties associated with cloud computing. This can involve designing architectures, configuring deployment pipelines, implementation of developed software, analysis of existing systems, implementing security best practices, and maintenance.
A Cloud Engineer at DDS will succeed if they are a generalist, can pick up projects with little or no context, and is self motivated. All Cloud Engineers are expected to deliver their work as code following the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model. It is essentially to have experience with at least one of the major cloud providers:: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is essential to have experience with Hashicorp Terraform and at least one of the following languages: Python, Javascript, Golang.
Cloud Engineers are members of the engineering Community of Practice (CoP) at the Defense Digital Service (DDS), which also includes data engineers, security engineers, and systems engineers. Engineers at DDS use modern tools and processes for software development.