Cloud Engineer

Black Canyon Consulting•Bethesda, MD

About The Position

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This full-time opportunity is at NCBI in Bethesda, Maryland. The Cloud Engineer will assist with operating and continually developing a cloud services environment based on Google GCP and Amazon AWS. The role involves working in a changing environment with developers and operations managers responsible for stable production services.

Requirements

Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
Experience managing cloud resources in Amazon AWS or Google Cloud Platform, particularly user management, roles and permissions, compute instances, VPCs and subnets, routing, and firewall rules or security groups.
Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks.
Ability to work independently and take initiative.
Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Familiarity with networking concepts, including subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, and ICMP.
Ability to manage firewall rules.
Strong troubleshooting skills.
Some programming experience applicable to developing cloud management tools, using one or more of Bourne/bash shell, Ruby, Python, or Perl.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.
Experience with MS Windows systems administration.
Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services.
Experience managing resources with Puppet.
Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources through their native CLI or API.
Experience with cloud automation tools such as Packer, Terraform, and cloud-init.
Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk, Telegraf, and InfluxDB.
Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
Familiarity with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
Experience with Git.
Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, Ruby, Python, or Perl.

Responsibilities

Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI's Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments.
Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture.
Participate in evaluating and implementing new technologies.
Operate and maintain existing services.
Assist with developing tools to monitor and manage cloud environments and enforce established policies.