Cloud Engineer

MAG Aerospace • Fayetteville, NC

70d

About The Position

MAG is currently looking for a Cloud Engineer responsible for managing an organization's cloud-based systems and processes at Fort Liberty, NC. The engineer may also be responsible for cloud systems plans and strategy; design, development, and deployment of applications into a Cloud or Hybrid Cloud; and implementation of enterprise infrastructure and platforms required for cloud computing.

Requirements

• 5 years of IT and/or software experience
• 3 years experience working in production Amazon Web Services environments
• DOD 8570 IAT Level II required (Level III preferred)
• Experience working with container technologies (Docker, rkt, containerd, and/or lxd)
• 3 years of Kubernetes experience as it relates to maintaining clusters and deploying applications hosted on Kubernetes clusters
• In depth understanding of DevOps methodologies and working within Agile teams
• Worked with Concourse, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity or other Continuous Integration tools
• Experience working within virtualized environments
• Experience with virtual networking appliances and related technologies (NGINX, HAProxy, F5, AWS ALB/NLB, TLS/SSL)
• Experience working with Git-centric workflows
• Experience in release management
• Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities
• Excellent communication and briefing skills; shows tact; effective listening skills and follow through
• Solid work ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment
• Detail oriented and organized; possess holistic understanding of IT systems
• Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience
• Proficient composing Linux automation scripts (shell/BASH)

Nice To Haves

• Experience in multiple public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with a platform as a service product such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, or similar
• In-depth working knowledge writing Ansible playbooks
• Experience managing and deploying applications in an air-gapped environment
• Experience working with complex IDaM requirements and technologies (e.g. Active Directory, SAML, openLDAP, hardware tokens, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, etc.)
• Understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics especially at the container level with APM and/or other tools such as Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience working with Windows automation (PowerShell)
• Experience working with Gitlab for SDLC (CI/CD) functionality
• Experience working with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Discourse, Rocketchat
• Experience using Rancher to manage Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes-hosted applications
• Experience implementing and maintaining a robust PKI infrastructure within a DOD context
• Ability to write rudimentary APIs and/or write automation to interact with existing APIs

Responsibilities

• Responsible for distributed and managed services
• Responsible for automating the installation, configuration, and maintenance of platform services
• Responsible for managing system tuning for reliability and efficiency
• Responsible for guiding and managing software releases for new features and supporting users through consolidation
• Responsible for performing the administrative operation of server hardware and software
• Responsible for ensuring system security and executing practices and procedures
• Responsible for troubleshooting system related problems
• Responsible for remaining current in operating systems/software analysis and technological developments and applications
• Responsible for recommending future direction or projects to management
• Responsible for providing expertise and direction in the development or modification of software programs and applications to enhance an operating system

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees