Cloud Engineer

Description

Redhawk is seeking candidates to join our team building out a critical Navy enterprise platform focused on transforming the Department of the Navy’s data enablement. As our team continues to build out API-Led infrastructure and modernize the way Government does business, we hope you'll join this effort and provide genuine mission critical impact.

Redhawk is looking for a highly talented remote AWS Cloud Engineer with a Top Secret security clearance. This position will support our client initiatives and accelerate their development lifecycle to achieve maximum efficiency.

Location

• Remote; with the potential travel to client sites, as needed.

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.

Location

• Remote; Open to travel as needed.
• Must be located near an installation with a SCIF.

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 Top Secret level 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.)

Citizenship

• U.S. Citizen Requirement due to clearance requirements and scope of work.
• Candidates must possess an active Top Secret Clearance and be eligible for SCI access.

Why Redhawk?

We understand that the right talent matters, which is why we aggressively compensate employees with bonuses, perks, and special incentives to ensure our team is happy and healthy.

We offer:

• Flex time off and paid holidays
• Competitive medical and dental coverage for all employees.
• Retirement plan matching and employee performance bonuses.
• A collaborative, fun and performance-driven culture!