Senior Cloud Administrator

Black Canyon Consulting•Bethesda, MD

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Cloud Administrator to support our 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 opportunity is full time at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD. The Cloud Engineer's role is to assist with the operation and continuing development of its Azure cloud services environment. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with an environment that is constantly changing and can work closely with developers and operations managers responsible for stable production services. We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Requirements

Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
Experience managing Cloud resources within Microsoft Azure, particularly:
User management
Roles and permissions
Compute instances
VPCs and subnets
Routing
Firewall rules/security groups
Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks
Self-starter, able to work independently
Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)
Ability to manage firewall rules
Strong troubleshooting skills
Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl)

Nice To Haves

Experience managing cloud systems, including Amazon AWS and Google GCP.
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 via their native CLI or API
Experience with cloud automation tools (packer, terraform, cloud-init)
Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as nagios, splunk, telegraf, influxdb.
Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket)
Experience with git
Experience with container technologies (docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl

Responsibilities

Provide support to developers and production services operating in NLM''s Microsoft Azure environment.
Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture.
Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies.
Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services.
Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.