Senior Cloud Systems Administrator

Black Canyon Consulting LLC
Bethesda, MD, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Bash Shell Cloud Computing Configuration Management Linux File Systems Monitoring of Systems Subnetting Python (Programming Language) Network Protocols Performance Tuning Systems Integration
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Web Services Google Cloud Cloud Platform System Multi-Cloud Caching Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Git Kubernetes Performance Monitor Cloudwatch Puppet Firewall Services Module Terraform

Job description

  • Multi-Cloud Administration: Design, administer, and maintain world-class environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Author, test, review, and maintain modular infrastructure code using Terraform.
  • Cloud Networking & Security: Design and maintain VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, Firewall rules, and hybrid interconnects ensuring compliance with federal security standards.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Implement and maintain telemetry, dashboards, and alerting across AWS CloudWatch/CloudTrail and GCP Cloud Operations.
  • Operations & Troubleshooting: Provide support for multi-cloud infrastructure, including responding to security incidents, performance monitoring, and tuning.

Requirements

In this role, you will design, automate, manage, and optimize production multi-cloud environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are seeking a self-sufficient administrator with deep Unix/Linux systems administration experience who can manage production cloud infrastructure from day one., * 10+ years of dedicated, hands-on enterprise Unix/Linux systems administration experience, with deep technical proficiency in systems internals, networking protocols, filesystems, and troubleshooting.

  • 3+ years of direct operational experience administering production workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Strong, demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and git.
  • High proficiency with Kubernetes, including multi-cloud and cloud/on-prem hybrid environments.
  • Practical working knowledge of configuration management using Puppet (manifests, module structure, and Hiera) for systems integration and node provisioning.
  • Experience with high-throughput web services, including HTTP/S internals, request flows, caching semantics, and performance tuning.
  • Strong Scripting and automation skills in Python and Bash.
  • Proven ability to operate independently and collaboratively in a team of senior cloud administrators

Preferred Qualifications

  • Practical operational familiarity with Alma Linux 8 or similar distributions.
  • Experience managing cloud environments in federal or biomedical research contexts subject to NIST/FedRAMP security frameworks

Benefits & conditions

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.

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location.

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