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Our client's employees are passionate about improving people's lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference?

Come Join Our Team

Our client is seeking to fill an OCI Cloud Administrator position in support of VA (Veterans Affairs) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of VA's Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy VA applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of VA's IT infrastructure.

What is the position?

Our client is seeking to fill an OCI Cloud Administrator position in support of VA (Veterans Affairs) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of VA's Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy VA applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of VA's IT infrastructure. The candidate will support our VA clients in their cloud operations to enhance, optimize, and maintain their computing capabilities across their technical landscape. This includes working with VA system admins when supporting application teams, working with project teams to operate & maintain (O&M) VA applications on their cloud platform. The Cloud Administrator will be focused on, and must have expertise with, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) components, resources, services, and tools.

What will I get to do?

• Utilize VA Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools (VAECOTs), the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) native portal, and/or other VA-approved tools necessary to support workloads in the VA's enterprise cloud
• Assist with compliance, logging, and monitoring solutions for VA OCI workloads
• Assist with reporting on current OCI status
• Documentation of production operations processes via production operation manuals (POMs)
• Support OCI cloud-based continuous improvement, deployment, and migration efforts as needed
• Utilize automation tools such as Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform or similar as needed in support of OCI workloads

What qualifications do I need?

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or technical discipline (10 years additional work experience might be considered in lieu of a degree)
• Candidate background eligibility requirements are United States citizen or be a Permanent Resident and have lived in the United States for at least 3 years, clean criminal background and able to obtain a Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
• Three (3) to six (6) years setting up, configuring and using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines
• Experience in systems administration within Linux (Red Hat) or Windows environments
• Experience in one or more of the VAECOT suite of tools, shown below

Candidates that do not meet the minimum qualifications will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
• Current OCI certification or a recent passing exam (e.g., OCI Associate/Professional/Specialist levels)
• Experience creating, testing, and maintaining virtual machine images
• Experience in creating technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and how-to guides
• Assisting application teams with system administration
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification or ITIL knowledge
• Knowledge of security regulations, best practices, countermeasures, compliance standards and current threats
• Previous Federal Government experience, preferably at VA
• Technical support and OS-level remediations for vulnerability scans
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure
• Amazon/Google/Microsoft/other industry cloud certifications
• Experience with DevOps configuration technology (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet)
• Experience in writing, testing and maintaining code (e.g., HashiCorp Configuration Language, JSON, Python)

VAEC Operational Tools (VAECOT)

Some experience in one or more of the following tools is required:

OCI Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Operational Tools/Services

• Oracle Cloud Security: Access Governance, Autonomous Linux, Bastian, Certificates, Cloud Guard, Hardware Root of Trust, Identity and Access Management, Isolated Network Virtualization, Key Management, Network Firewall, Security Zones, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Scanning
• Oracle Cloud Monitoring and Logging: Connector Hub, Database Management, Fleet Application Management, Full Stack Disaster Recovery, Logging, Log Analytics, Monitoring, Stack Monitoring, Notifications, Ops Insights, OS Management Hub, Resource Manager
• Oracle Cloud Networking: DNS Management, FastConnect, Load Balancers, Networking Gateways, Private Endpoint, Site-to-Site VPN, Virtual Cloud Networks
• Oracle Storage: Archive Storage, Block Volumes, File Storage, Object Storage, Storage Gateway
• Some experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP tool equivalents to OCI CSP Operational Tools/Services desired



Third Party Tools

• Cloud Security: Armis, BigFix, CloudStrike, Centrify, NetSkope, Tenable Nessus
• Cloud Governance: Turbot
• Containerization: Red Hat OpenShift
• DevOps/Configuration Management/Help Desk: Ansible, Cloudockit, GitHub, Jira ServiceDesk, ServiceNow
• Logging/Observability: Dynatrace, SolarWinds, Splunk
• Migration: CloudKey, Jira
• Reporting: Apptio, Cloudability