Staff Cloud Engineer

Description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: No

At the company, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

The company’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer. This position can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA.

Primary Responsibilities:

Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.

Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.

Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.

Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.

Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.

Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.

Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.

Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure

Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.

Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems

Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.

Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies

Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers

This position offers a sign on bonus starting at $10,000.

Basic Qualifications:

United States Citizenship

Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.

Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application, current and within scope.

Bachelor’s degree with 12 + years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master's; 8 years with a PhD; or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.

CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification

Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.

Experience in an Agile software development framework

Experience with at least 1 of the preferred qualifications below

​ Preferred Qualifications:

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM templates

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes administration

AWS administration

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

NATS configuration

Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Primary Level Salary Range: $169,000.00 - $265,600.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, the company considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, the company provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.