Cloud Operations System Administrator
Posted Aug 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026
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Behavioral
Walk me through your experience supporting GDSS operations. What environments were you working in and what was your role day to day?
whether the candidate has real hands-on GDSS exposure versus general cloud ops experience, since this is a required qualification
Tell me about a time you had to respond to a critical incident in an AWS environment. What happened, how did you triage it, and what was the resolution?
real incident response experience and ability to stay calm and methodical under pressure
Tell me about a time you had to balance cost optimization against performance or availability needs in a cloud environment. What tradeoff did you make and why?
judgment on capacity planning and cost management, which is explicitly a listed responsibility
Describe a time you mentored or guided a junior engineer through a technical problem. What was the situation and how did you handle it?
leadership and knowledge transfer ability, since mentoring junior engineers is a stated responsibility
This role involves being on an on-call rotation. Tell me about your experience with on-call responsibilities and how you handle being paged for something serious outside of work hours.
realistic expectations and track record with on-call demands, especially for a government mission-critical system
What is your process for staying current with new cloud tools and services, and can you give an example of something new you adopted that changed how you or your team operated?
initiative and continuous learning mindset in a fast-moving cloud landscape
Technical
How do you approach root cause analysis after an incident is resolved? Can you give a specific example where the root cause was not what it first looked like?
depth of troubleshooting skill versus just patching symptoms
What experience do you have with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools, and how have you used them to automate cloud operations tasks?
actual IaC tool fluency, since automation is called out as a core coordination point with DevOps
How do you approach patch management across multiple AWS environments without introducing downtime or breaking dependencies?
practical knowledge of maintaining high availability while doing routine maintenance
How do you keep documentation current for cloud architecture and operational procedures when things are changing constantly, and how do you make sure other people actually use it during an incident?
discipline around documentation practices, since this is explicitly called out and often neglected
How do you coordinate with security teams when you are managing patching and infrastructure changes, especially in an environment supporting Air Force mobility operations?
understanding of cross-team collaboration and security-conscious operations in a defense context
Situational
Say a mission planning application in one of the CloudOne environments suddenly becomes unreachable during an active mobility operation. Walk me through exactly what you would do in the first fifteen minutes.
structured incident triage process and prioritization when downtime directly affects a mission-critical government system
How would you go about establishing operational standards or best practices for a cloud environment that currently doesn't have them, or has inconsistent ones?
ability to lead and formalize process rather than just execute tickets
This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Clearance. Have you held a clearance before, and is there anything in your background that could complicate that process?
clearance eligibility and honesty upfront, since the position is contingent on this
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