Jr Cloud Support Engineer

MGPS is seeking multiple Jr. Cloud Support Engineers fully cleared to work the night shift onsite in Reston VA or Redmond WA for one of our USG Clients. Night shift is 10pm to 6:30am; Swing shift is 2pm to 10:30pm.

Position Description

Serve as a part of the incident management team in a 24X7 Microsoft Azure environment. Candidate will diagnose mitigate and/or escalate system issues to maintain a high level of system/platform availability. Candidate will serve as a part of the Live Site work stream and will require an understanding of core Windows Azure components and tools to diagnose issues.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Responds to incident tickets in a 24x7 operational environment to meet SLA objectives.

Troubleshoots system issues using diagnostic tools like NetMon winDBG and custom application tools.

Reviews system logs to identify and mitigate system issues.

Leverage knowledge base to help troubleshoot identify and resolve systems issues.

Update knowledge base troubleshooting guides and lessons learned as required.

Document incident fixes and make recommendations to engineering team for system improvements for consideration in future releases.

Document system issues resulting in system outages and coordinate change though change management process.

Support collaboration across operations development teams and external partners.

Support tiger team calls to streamline knowledge sharing and timely resolution of system issues.

Monitor solution performance according to client specification and SLAs escalate as needed.

Other supporting duties as directed.

Willingness to work overtime and varying hours as required.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

BS in Computer Science or other technical discipline is preferred.

12 years of operations experience providing application infrastructure support; 1 year performing system administrator support

Clearance Requirement:

TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly required.

Other Job Specific Skills:

Experience with system administration support tools such as Windows/Linux

Experience supporting a 24x7 cloud based environment.

Strong interpersonal skills.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

Experience in supporting Cloud based environment and tools such as Azure/AWS

Experience analyzing troubleshooting and providing solutions for technical issues.

Ability to problem solve and collaborate with team members.

Strong organizational and multitasking skills.

Strong in technical communications with both technical and nontechnical peers

Able to maintain professionalism under pressure.

Strong customer focus.

Benefits

We offer a 10% shift differential for night shift.

Minimum Qualifications: 1-2 years of operations experience providing application infrastructure support; 1 year performing system administrator support Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly required. Other Job Specific Skills: Experience with system administration support tools such as Windows/Linux Experience supporting a 24x7 cloud based environment. Strong interpersonal skills. Strong oral and written communication skills. Experience in supporting Cloud based environment and tools such as Azure/AWS Experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and providing solutions for technical issues. Ability to problem solve and collaborate with team members. Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills. Strong in technical communications with both technical and non-technical peers Able to maintain professionalism under pressure. Strong customer focus.