Integrator 3 - (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)

Akina • Annapolis Junction, MD

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About The Position

Akina is hiring an Integrator 3 to support a team providing cloud-based geolocation solutions in near real time to decision makers and warfighters. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including modernization, migrations, and roadmaps, while ensuring systems follow best practices and governance requirements. The position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

The Integrator 3 builds reusable infrastructure modules and enforces standards for Infrastructure as Code. The role monitors system health and performance, troubleshoots issues, and develops strategies for recovery, high availability, and cloud cost optimization. The employee also contributes to architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, performance metrics, after-action reports, and knowledge transfer to internal teams, while recommending enhancements based on emerging technologies.

The position requires experience with cloud infrastructure and services, IaC, containers, monitoring and incident response, backup and disaster recovery, secrets and key management, cost and performance optimization, cloud troubleshooting, documentation, and Linux. Development experience with Java and React is also required. Salary is listed at $225,000–$275,000 annually, with actual compensation dependent on experience, location, and possible contractual requirements.

Requirements

• Twenty years of experience as a Software Engineer (SWE) in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university; four additional years of SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may substitute for the degree.
• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services, such as compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Knowledge of container and platform workloads such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE.
• Development experience with Java and React.
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch, and responding to incidents.
• Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience managing secrets and key management, including tools such as KMS, Key Vault, or Secret Manager, certificates, and rotation policies.
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance through measures such as tagging, budgets, rightsizing, and autoscaling, and producing usage and cost reports.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues involving networking, security, and service limits.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ActiveMQ and/or Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, including modernization, migration, and roadmaps, in accordance with best practices and governance requirements.
• Build reusable modules, including Helm Charts and Terraform modules, and enforce development standards for Infrastructure as Code.
• Monitor infrastructure and system health and performance using logging and alerting; identify issues and implement solutions to improve efficiency.
• Develop strategies for failure and recovery, including backups and high availability.
• Optimize cloud costs through measures such as tagging, budgets, rightsizing, and autoscaling, and assess the benefits of cloud services.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities and efficiency.
• Contribute to architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, and performance metrics, as applicable.
• Provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to existing systems.
• Migrate applications to cloud environments.
• Configure and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Troubleshoot issues and identify root causes.
• Generate after-action reports that include new requirements and improved Tier 1 SOPs.
• Implement deployment strategies for high-availability systems.

Benefits

• 24 days of PTO accrued annually
• 11 federal holidays
• 401(k) is 100% vested on the start date, with a direct company contribution worth 10% of salary
• Company covers 100% of employee healthcare costs and 50% of dependent healthcare costs
• Educational assistance for college classes
• Company covers costs associated with job-related training and certifications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior