Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Fairfax, VA or Denver, CO)

• Pay Rate / Range $150,000-190,000

The above salary range represents the range expected for the position; however, final salary offers are based on a number of factors such as the position’s responsibilities; the candidate’s experience, education, and skills; location; travel required; and current market conditions. –

This program requires US Citizenship.

Openings: 3

Location : Fairfax, VA or Denver, CO (100% on-site)

Clearance : Minimum of an active Top Secret required, will be required to obtain an SCI before they start and a CI Poly down the line (if they don’t already have one)

Degree: High preference

Experience Level: Mid to Sr

Salary Range: $130K-$220K

Why these are needed:

Customer is basically doubling the number of users to the environment, help with eventual move from on-prem cloud to commercial cloud. These folks will help support/upgrade the current environment. The goal is to create continued automation to stand up reproducible, classified processing environments.

Must Haves:

• AWS – ability to set up/stand up environments (Ex. EC2 instances) rapidly, managing various AWS services (Ex. Dynamo, Cloudwatch, etc).

• Linux OS

• Scripting – bash, python, etc.

High Preference:

• Container orchestration – Kubernetes

• Strong proficiency with different Linux system architectures and distributions; mainly with Amazon Linux and RHEL 9

• Familiar with containers and managing containers inside Kubernetes pods

• Experience creating, deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters

• Ability to manage different projects/tasks in parallel

• Ability to discuss technical tasks, ideas, and process with other team members and clients

• Experience patching, working with vulnerability and compliance scans, and mitigating critical patches

• Familiar with change management tools such as Puppet/Hiera

• Familiar with CI/CD, maintaining code and containers such as Gitlab projects and runners, Harbor container management and container security scanning

• Familiar utilizing Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and Ansible including BASH and Python

• Familiar working in Confluence and Jira

• Maintain and upgrading clusters

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