Platform Engineeer

Centuria•Greenbelt, MD

About The Position

The Space Science Mission Operations group at NASA Goddard runs the ground software that keeps satellites alive and science data moving. A lot of that software is old. It's installed by hand, configured by hand, and understood by a shrinking number of people. We're moving it to Kubernetes, on-premise, and we need someone who can lead that work without losing the mission operators in the process.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Technology, or a related field required.
7+ years of experience working with AWS, RHEL, Windows Servers and Active Directory (AD) required.
Experience operating Kubernetes clusters
Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
Strong time-management and priority management skills
Strong RHEL/Linux/Unix background
Scripting experience (Shell/Perl/Python, or related language)
Strong understanding of network protocols and principles (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
Experience with designing/managing virtual infrastructures (VMWare/Nutanix/Hyper-V)
Strong reasoning, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
Expertise in creating, analyzing, and maintaining large-scale infrastructure deployments.
Experience with private-cloud backup and recovery

Responsibilities

As a System Engineer, you will be analyzing, configuring, installing, upgrading, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, patching, compiling, securing, and repairing Linux servers in a heterogeneous environment.
Ability to support AWS with services such as Cloud Formation Templates, S3, EC2, EKS
Provide technical guidance and maintain operations standards.
Participate in the validation matrix role to independently test and validate solutions to ensure fulfillment of all business requirements, compliance of regulations and quality of solutions.
Build, deploy, manage, and maintain new and existing infrastructure systems.
Monitor and analyze data center infrastructure resources and system applications.
Implement and maintain backups redundancy strategies.
Responsible for the security of the managed infrastructure systems
Responsible for collaborating and defining policies, procedures, and technical documentation including reports, design, maintenance, operational, and support procedures.
Responsible for the on-going development of automation strategies
Engage with upper management and stakeholders with requirements, status reports, activity summaries, and achievements.
Communicate with stakeholders to identify their needs and requirements.
Use expert-level administration and optimization of hosts and servers to ensure high availability and resource management.
Standardize and automate processes and monitoring using scripting and advance technologies offered by the data center.
Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and clearly document the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff.
Routinely test software for bugs, redundancies, and security issues.
Conduct high-level root-cause analysis for service interruption and establish preventive measures.
Create reports and documentation outlining findings and solutions; oversee the overall backup strategy and daily operations for secure backups and restore testing.