Cloud DevOps Engineer

The Cloud DevOps Engineer will collaborate with the AWS Cloud Architect and AWS DevOps/Automation Engineer in architecting, configuring, and testing AWS cloud native services to implement an authoritative data environment using AWS services., * Implement and support AWS services: API Gateway, WAF, Lambda, SQS, EC2, IAM, S3, Security Group, VPC, etc.

• Strong familiarity with modern DevOps principles, practices, methods, and tools.
• Provide implementation guidance/support to the customer throughout the project life cycle.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large- and small-scale systems
• Provide experienced knowledge and/or develop competency on Terraform, Ansible, Cloud native automation tools
• Provision, maintain, and support AWS EKS clusters and containerized microservices to enable scalable, reliable data processing workflows.
• Configure, deploy, and manage AWS EC2 instances running PBS (Portable Batch System) to support batch processing and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
• Administer AWS IAM roles, policies, and permissions, ensuring appropriate access controls based on user and group assignments.
• Collaborate with team to develop, stand-up, and support of cloud platform using a variety of programming languages and cloud-native technologies.
• Develop and implement systems using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager)
• Develop tools and documentation to enable the support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with cloud architecture.
• Implement and support containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) framework solutions in deployment and operations
• Integrate systems using a wide variety of protocols like REST, SOAP, MQ, TCP/IP, JSON, and others.

This position will support the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) Integrated Information Services contract. This is a mid-level DevOps position supporting variety of projects to evaluate emerging technologies and solutions for the enterprise. Ideal candidates will have strong technical aptitude, hands on programming capability, curiosity, and desire to build cool innovative tools while working as a member of an Agile team. This position involves work in a Linux/AWS Cloud environment supporting analytics-focused cloud data architectures., * BS in Computer Science or related discipline

• 5+ years of experience in Linux and/or Windows
• 5+ years of experience developing & engineering enterprise Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) using leading cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Must include networking, compute, storage, database, identify management/access control, monitoring, etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud technologies and cloud infrastructure, including networking, VPCs, S3, RDS, ELB, Route53, HPC, SQS, Auto Scaling, Direct Connect, VGWs, and DNS
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies including ARM, VN, Blob, Files, VMs, ACS, VM Scale Sets, PaaS services
• Must possess hands-on experience with some of these using industry standard DevOps tools: CI/CD, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, Git, scripting, Gradle, Maven, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Must possess hands-on experience building Micro-Service Architectures and decoupled systems (e.g., Lambda, Azure Functions)
• Experience with monitoring and network management tools and technologies and network engineering concepts (e.g., IPsec, Routing, NAT, DNS).
• Working knowledge of FEDRAMP and experience applying best practices for building/deploying secure and reliable services and applications on FEDRAMP- compliant Cloud platforms
• Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, Bash, Python, and YAML

Preferred Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional;
• Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies; Architect with Google Cloud Platform:
• Infrastructure, MS Network Certifications

US citizenship, living in the US for the last 3 years and the ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance are mandatory requirements for this position. This is a remote position but will work Eastern Time core hours.This full-time, direct hire position offers a full benefits package including paid time off, 401k match, short- and long-term disability coverage and PPO health care benefits., * Salary band: $100,000 - $110,000/year

• Medical, dental & vision coverage with substantial company contribution
• Paid time off (PTO) + 11 paid holidays
• Company Match retirement savings (401k)
• Employee wellness programs & gym discounts
• Employee assistance & concierge services
• Professional development resources