In this role, you will:
- Design, test, and maintain our cloud application/runtime infrastructure (AWS/GCP/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, GCP, 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.)
Arlington, VA On-site Full-time USD 150,000 – 250,000 / year
Blue Sky Innovators is hiring a Cloud System Engineer, Secret Clearance
About company
Blue Sky Innovators supports government and commercial customers in the definition and delivery of advanced technologies to solve the toughest challenges. Our mission is to bring “Insight to Operations” by bringing technological and operational insight to every aspect of our clients’ mission.
We provide professional services to operational, intelligence, and technology development programs within the Department of War (DoW), and the Intelligence Community (IC). Our core capabilities span Cyber, RF, Space, Air, AI/ML, and Intel domains.
Through technological insight, we make new capabilities possible and are committed to transitioning technology fully to operations. Our team is comprised of experienced professionals with diverse technical backgrounds from across the DoW, Intelligence, and Commercial worlds.