Network Engineer Principal (Cloud Strategy & Migration)

**Torch Technologies** Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us! Torch Technologies is seeking a **Network Engineer Principal (Cloud Strategy & Migration)** located at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex in Montgomery, AL, within the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate (BES), to support the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Common Services (CS). ERP Common Services is responsible for establishing, integrating, and sustaining common engineered infrastructure and services capabilities across the Air Force’s ERP applications. ERP CS supports the deployment of the Air Force Integrated Personnel and Pay System (AFIPPS-ACAT I), Defense Enterprise Accounting Management System (DEAMS-ACAT I) and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Initiative (MROi-BCAT II). This position supports GBE. **Duties and Responsibilities:** - The Network Engineer Principal shall have responsibilities to advise and support work that involves the planning, analysis, design, development, testing, quality assurance, configuration, installation, implementation, integration, maintenance, and/or management of networked IT systems. - Functions required to be performed by individuals in this specialty may include: - Analyzing and recommending cloud infrastructure requirements. - Recommending and maintaining network architecture and infrastructure. - Analyzing network workload. - Monitoring network capacity and performance. - Diagnosing and resolving network problems. - Recommending network backup and recovery procedures. - Installing, testing, maintaining, upgrading network operating systems software, and/or ensuring the rigorous application of information security/cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of network services. **Required Qualifications:** - U.S Citizenship. - BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other Engineering Discipline. - 2+ years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 4 of which must be in the DoW; or 15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications, 8 of which must be in the DoW. - Minimum 2 yrs. experience developing, deploying or maintaining operational cloud (OCI, AWS and/or Azure) environments with an emphasis on federal or DoW systems (GovCloud, Cloud1) - CompTIA Security+ Certification (or higher) - Current Secret clearance—Required. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Cloud experience (OCI) - Atlassian Tool suite - Agile Development methodologies - ServiceNow - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure- Highly desirable. **Schedule:** (M-F; 8-5) **Work Location:** - Onsite **Travel**: 0%-10% **Relocation Assistance Available:** No **Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract:** No #LI-AH1 **Benefits:** Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment, a competitive salary, and an excellent, comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation, 401(k) match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts, EAP, education assistance, paid time off, and holidays. **Applying to Torch Technologies:** Only those candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Employment at Torch Technologies i…