***Remote opportunity with up to 25% travel. Position Overview The Cloud Platform Engineer 3 provides technical expertise in the planning, integration, performance, and improvement of cloud-based platforms and distributed virtual environments. Responsibilities • Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for different cloud-based platforms. • Creates proactive engineering mechanisms that will enable the team to manage the health of a number of distributed VMs. • Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies for hardware and software specifications. • Utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements within existing frameworks, tools and processes. • Responsible for systems functionality, performance, and configurations issues. • Considered an emerging authority, who applies extensive technical expertise. • Develops technical solutions to complex problems. • Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience. • Master's degree from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience. Required Certifications • IAT-2 certification required. • One or more cloud certifications required. Clearance Requirement • Active Secret clearance required.