Advanced Cloud DevOps and Platform Engineer

Reference #: 2024-64550

Basic Qualifications

Education Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.

Clearance Requirements:

Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance required within a reasonable time from the point of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities for this Position

ROLE AND POSITION OBJECTIVES:

As an Advanced Cloud DevOps and Platform Engineer, you will:

Develop automation to create and maintain several PaaS deployments

Automatically configure and deploy PaaS infrastructure consisting of identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, deployment and more

Interface with internal and external customers to deploy solutions and deliver workshops to educate and empower them

Work closely with our team to plan major updates and enhancements to our products

Guide engineering teams in evolving Cloud technologies

In this role, you are the Platform Engineer working with Critical internal and external Platform Consumers. Together with the team, you will support successful implementation of a PaaS in the Cloud through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.

Candidates should have demonstrated strengths and experience in some of the following areas:

Experience working with, or are familiar with the differences between, public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments

Container technologies such as Docker, or Kubernetes

Deployment of continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Puppet, or Chef

Experience maintaining production-grade applications in virtualized environments (cloud computing platforms and services) using automation

Creation of pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, and/or Terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from resource creation to service configuration

Effective communication and attention to detail

Other beneficial experience:

IT security practices including encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing

Installation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies such as Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, RHOSP, or VIO

Management of Cloud Resources in Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure

Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or OpenShift

Cloud automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, or Packer

Open source server, messaging, load balancing, and database software (such as RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch)

Scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers (NGINX)/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)

What sets you apart:

Creative thinker with demonstrated success leading the systems development life cycle

Collaborative team player eager to provide technical leadership and position others for success

Exceptional communication, presentation, and influence management skills, with notable record of securing buy-in on concepts and ideas

Experienced in the art of negotiation with ability to meet challenging customer requirements with win-win solutions

Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others