Integrator AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes

• Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required
Position : 05-UNKNOWN-SWE3
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Description:

This team is focused on providing cloud-based geolocation solutions in near-real-time directly to decision makers and warfighters around the world.

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., modernization, migration, roadmaps, etc.), ensuring that systems are designed and maintained following best practices and governance requirements.
• Build reusable modules (e.g., Helm Charts, Terraform, etc.) and enforce development standards for creation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Continuously monitor the health and performance of the infrastructure and systems using logging and alerting, identify issues and implement solutions for improved efficiency.
• Provide strategies for failure/recovery (e.g., backup, high-availability, etc.), cost optimization (e.g., tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling, etc.) and benefit analysis of cloud services.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities and efficiency.
• Contribute to deliverables (e.g., architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures) and performance metrics, where applicable, and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to current systems.
• Migrating applications to cloud environments
• Configuring and maintaining cloud infrastructures using tools such as Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Troubleshooting issues and identifying root cause analysis
• Generating after action reports to include new requirements and improved Tier 1 SOPs
• Experience with ActiveMQ and/or Kafka
• Deployment strategies for high-availability systems

Position

Required Skills:

• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (e.g., compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures
• Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, etc.
• Knowledge of container and platform workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Development experience with Java and React
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Cloud Watch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Open Search, etc. and responding to incidents.
• Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience managing secrets and key management with tools such as KMS/Key Vault/Secret Manager, certificates, and rotation policies.
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance (e.g., tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and producing usage/cost reports.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS, routing, VPN), security, and service limits.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS

SWE3

Qualifications:

Twenty (20) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Salary Range: $225k-$275k (Annually)

The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

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