Senior Cloud Engineer

Oteemo, Inc • College Park, MD

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About The Position

Oteemo is seeking a Senior Cloud Administrator and DevSecOps Architect to join our team of hands-on engineering consultants, to support our customers development, test, and production environments. This role is for an experienced Platform and Infrastructure Architect and Solutioneer, capable of identifying and implementing end-to-end solutions for a large and complex system of systems across both cloud and hybrid on-premise environments. This role will function as a subject matter expert for the customer, and lead a small team of Cloud Engineers, to identify, propose, develop, and implement infrastructure and platform solutions. Candidates should have experience designing large system solutions, and communicating and advocating their designs effective with C-Suite leaders and non-technical staff. They should also have experience as a team lead or with managing a small team of engineers. Work also includes system administration, networking, CI/CD pipeline administration in Gitlab, pipeline and security tooling, vulnerability assessments and scanning, Kubernetes Cluster Administration (AKS and on-prem K8S), testing infrastructure, building machine and container images, and upgrades and maintenance of system infrastructure and tooling.

Requirements

• 8 years of experience as a systems administrator in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, and Linux.
• At least one year of experience leading a team of engineers.
• Experience building and delivering engineering presentations for C-Suite leaders and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, EKS, RKE2, K3D, OpenShift, etc.), with AKS preferred.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and Linux administration.
• Experience building and deploying container images in Docker/Podman/Helm preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Terraform preferred).
• Experience with BASH scripting for automation or similar.
• Experience with Python scripting for automation or similar.
• Hands-on experience automating Development and Infrastructure tasking.
• Hand-on experience with service catalogue self-service automation preferred.
• Hands-on experience implementing and integrating security tooling into the operational stack.
• Experience using AI for automation preferred.
• Must have one of the following certifications: Security+ CE, CySA+, GSEC, CCNA Security.
• US Citizen-Interim or Active Secret Clearance a must!

Nice To Haves

• Provide proof of completing a training or course in one of the following areas: Linux+, RedHat, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Provide proof of completing a training course in Microsoft Azure in both of the following areas: AZ-104, AZ-305.

Responsibilities

• Identify, propose, develop, and implement infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Design large system solutions.
• Communicate and advocate designs effectively with C-Suite leaders and non-technical staff.
• Lead a small team of Cloud Engineers.
• Perform system administration.
• Manage networking.
• Administer CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab.
• Manage pipeline and security tooling.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and scanning.
• Administer Kubernetes Clusters (AKS and on-prem K8S).
• Manage testing infrastructure.
• Build machine and container images.
• Perform upgrades and maintenance of system infrastructure and tooling.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed