Cloud System Engineer, Secret Clearance

In this role, you will:

• Design, test, and maintain our cloud application/runtime infrastructure (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to internal operations projects, such as the introduction of new technology stacks.
• Spearhead improvement and/or maintenance initiatives regarding existing infrastructure.
• Partner with development teams, clients and vendors on various tasks to enable continuous delivery, such as building microservices, and responding to and resolving incidents as they arise.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement via automation as a key member of our DevOps team.

Technical Experience

• Must come from a technical background with strong experience in DevOps tooling and techniques.
• Previous knowledge of building and optimizing deployment pipelines and deployment strategies on popular CI/CD tools.
• Strong experience designing, securing, scaling and administering cloud platforms.
• Solid understanding and experience of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Serverless computing.
• Previous experience using scripting and coding languages.
• Ability to drive efficiencies through automation and process design and implementation of application deployment methodologies.
• Experience deploying, securing and upgrading a growing list of applications and services; provide routine automation; maintain security policies; troubleshoot and offer technical support for project related work.
• Ability to contribute to existing documentation such as knowledge base, wiki, manuals, etc.
• Build process for multiple releases.
• Design and configure continuous integration build systems.
• Participate in deployment and configuration of the applications.
• Set up code review process and tooling for continuous integration.
• Automate test environments.

Additional Skills/Requirements

An active Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance.

Must have at least one from each of the following categories:

• Programming Languages

C, C#, C++, Java, JS(ES6+), Python, Ruby, Perl, Rust, Go

• Systems Administrator Experience

Linux Redhat/CentOS, Linux Debian/Ubuntu

• Virtualization Technologies

Xen, HyperV, Vmware, KVM, Qemu

• Cloud Platforms

AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Openstack

• CI/CD Tools

Jenkins, Travis CI, GitLab CI

• Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef

• Container Technologies (Must Have Docker/Kubernetes and at least one of the following:)

Docker-Compose, LXC, Openshift, AWS EKS, GKE, Docker Swarm

Kubernetes Certification is a plus.

• Web Technologies

HTTP. HTTPS. CSS. Web Dev Frameworks (Angular/React/Vue), DDP, REST, GraphQL

• Web Servers

Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, LightHttpd

• L4 and L7 Load Balancer Experience

Path Based Routing, reverse/forward proxy

• Bash Scripting Experience
• Log Aggregation

Splunk, ELK, Graylog

• Monitoring

PRTG, Nagios, Icinga2

• Experience with Firewalls (NAT, ACL, Port Forwarding)
• Hashicorp Toolstack Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, Nomad
• Good understanding of IP Network stack up to CCENT level.

Education

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree required (in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or related field.)

Salary range for the position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year. Specific compensation will be determined by several factors including experience, education, skills, and knowledge. We also offer medical/dental/vision benefits and 401k contribution.

Blue Sky Innovators, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a qualified job seeker with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, please email us at and provide your name and contact information. Please note: this is only for job seekers with disabilities requesting an accommodation.