Cloud Engineer III

Job summary

Design, deploy, and sustain secure cloud infrastructure and application runtime environments for mission-critical systems. The role covers AWS compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes-based container platforms, monitoring, and security, while automating infrastructure and deployments with Infrastructure as Code, scripting, and CI/CD. The engineer also troubleshoots complex Linux and cloud environments and integrates commercial, government, and proprietary software.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, systems administration, DevOps, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience deploying, administering, troubleshooting, and sustaining cloud compute, storage, networking, and application infrastructure.
• Experience administering Linux systems and troubleshooting operating system, application, connectivity, resource utilization, and performance issues.
• Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications using Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of Kubernetes workloads, Pods, Services, networking, ingress, resource management, scaling, and application deployment.
• Experience with cloud networking, routing, access controls, load balancing, and secure connectivity.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, observability, IAM, least-privilege access, system hardening, and data protection.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Current Security+ certificate.
• U.S. citizenship required; dual citizenship is not permitted.
• Must be eligible for a TS/SCI security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and sustain production cloud infrastructure for compute, storage, networking, containerized applications, and mission-critical workloads.
• Manage cloud compute and storage resources to maintain availability, persistence, performance, reliability, and efficient utilization.
• Deploy, administer, troubleshoot, and optimize containerized applications and microservices on Kubernetes.
• Implement resource management and scaling strategies across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Integrate commercial, government, third-party, legacy, and proprietary software into cohesive application workflows.
• Maintain monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and health telemetry for infrastructure and applications.
• Configure cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, route tables, network ACLs, and load balancers.
• Implement operating system hardening, least-privilege access, IAM controls, secure network configurations, and data protection measures.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, maintenance, and operational tasks.
• Troubleshoot cloud, Linux, Kubernetes, application, network, storage, and security issues; document architectures and procedures.

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