Cloud Administrator – AI​/ML TS​/SCI w Poly

Basic Qualifications

• Operate in an agile development environment requiring the delivery of User Experience feedback.
• Conduct User Experience research and optimization.
• Create final visual designs, storyboards, interaction flows, and interface guidelines.
• Take a user-centered approach in crafting design solutions that meet both user needs and product strategy requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to rapidly prototype and iterate on multiple design solutions.
• Review final implementation with front-end developers to ensure design standards are followed.
• Analyze and provide solutions for project life cycle design including interviewing customers, clearly articulating customer requirements to design team, creating visual designs/prototypes, presenting information to customers, and helping solve and clarify questions and problems.
• Participate in several diverse engineering teams to conduct User Experience research and optimization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders within various customer bases to provide recommendations to other Designers.

• An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required
• Seven (7) years of experience is required.
• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics is required from an accredited college or university.
• Hadoop/Cloud System Administrator Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification is required to have one of the following Cloud Developer
  
  Certifications:
  • AWS Dev Ops Engineer Professional
  • CDP Administrator - Private Cloud Base
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Advanced knowledge of SSH tunneling and protocols, including the implementation of dynamic SOCKS proxies as well as other ssh-based utilities, including rysn, pdsh, pdcp, and WinSCP.
• Basic understanding of low-level network concepts including VLANs, port channel bonding and layer2/layer 3 switch interactions.
• Familiarity with software load balancers for large scale web service implementations including HAProxy and NGINX
• Experience with Kubernetes orchestration services and Docker images.
• Experience with log aggregation and search tools including Elasticsearch, Logstash, filebeats, Grafana, and rsyslog.

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The Cloud Administrator provides support for implementation and troubleshooting and maintenance on large Hadoop/Cloud clusters.

• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
• Agile development experience with source code management practices and tools
• Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices

• Shall have at least three (3) years of experience managing and monitoring large distributed systems (>1000 nodes)
• Shall have experience diagnosing and troubleshooting large scale cloud computing systems including familiarity with distributed systems for storage and retrieval of data e.g. Apache's Hadoop, Accumulo, CASSANDRA distributed databases, or SCALITY or SWIFT object stores.
• Shall have demonstrated ability to work within a pre-defined mission focused team structure, follow SOP's, communicate effectively, accept constructive feedback and receive technical guidance and advice from senior level technical resources.
• Shall have demonstrated a…