Cloud System Engineer, Secret Clearance

Blue Sky Innovators•Arlington, VA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Kubernetes Certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.