Cloud System Engineer, Secret Clearance

In this role, you will:

• Design, test, and maintain our cloud application/runtime infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to internal operations projects, such as the introduction of new technology stacks.
• Spearhead improvement and/or maintenance initiatives regarding existing infrastructure.
• Partner with development teams, clients and vendors on various tasks to enable continuous delivery, such as building microservices, and responding to and resolving incidents as they arise.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement via automation as a key member of our DevOps team.
  
  

Technical Experience

• Must come from a technical background with strong experience in DevOps tooling and techniques.
• Previous knowledge of building and optimizing deployment pipelines and deployment strategies on popular CI/CD tools.
• Strong experience designing, securing, scaling and administering cloud platforms.
• Solid understanding and experience of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Serverless computing.
• Previous experience using scripting and coding languages.
• Ability to drive efficiencies through automation and process design and implementation of application deployment methodologies.
• Experience deploying, securing and upgrading a growing list of applications and services; provide routine automation; maintain security policies; troubleshoot and offer technical support for project related work.
• Ability to contribute to existing documentation such as knowledge base, wiki, manuals, etc.
• Build process for multiple releases.
• Design and configure continuous integration build systems.
• Participate in deployment and configuration of the applications.
• Set up code review process and tooling for continuous integration.
• Automate test environments.
  
  

Additional Skills/Requirements

An active Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance.

Must have at least one from each of the following categories:

• Programming Languages
  
  

C, C#, C , Java, JS(ES6 ), Python, Ruby, Perl, Rust, Go

• Systems Administrator Experience
  
  

Linux Redhat/CentOS, Linux Debian/Ubuntu

• Virtualization Technologies
  
  

Xen, HyperV, Vmware, KVM, Qemu

• Cloud Platforms
  
  

AWS, GCP, Azure, Openstack

• CI/CD Tools
  
  

Jenkins, Travis CI, GitLab CI

• Infrastructure as Code
  
  

Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef

• Container Technologies (Must Have Docker/Kubernetes and at least one of the following:)
  
  

Docker-Compose, LXC, Openshift, AWS EKS, GKE, Docker Swarm

Kubernetes Certification is a plus.

• Web Technologies
  
  

HTTP. HTTPS. CSS. Web Dev Frameworks (Angular/React/Vue), DDP, REST, GraphQL

• Web Servers
  
  

Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, LightHttpd

• L4 and L7 Load Balancer Experience
  
  

Path Based Routing, reverse/forward proxy

• Bash Scripting Experience
• Log Aggregation
  
  

Splunk, ELK, Graylog

• Monitoring
  
  

PRTG, Nagios, Icinga2

• Experience with Firewalls (NAT, ACL, Port Forwarding)
• Hashicorp Toolstack Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, Nomad
• Good understanding of IP Network stack up to CCENT level.
  
  

Education

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree required (in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or related field.)
  
  

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