Cloud and Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer Company Description

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world‑changing impact, advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. Our mission spans four critical national security areas: nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi‑domain defense, empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

We have an opening for a Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer
. You will architect, implement, and administer the cloud and application infrastructure required to support enterprise applications across the Laboratory’s business services and programmatic missions. This position is in the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division in the Computing Directorate, supporting the LivIT Program.

This position offers a hybrid schedule, blending in‑person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.

This position will be filled at either the SES.
2 or SES.
3 level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

• Architect and implement highly available application infrastructures required to support enterprise IT service delivery.
• Leverage systems programming expertise to automate and manage service orchestration, monitoring, configuration management, security, and patch management of application infrastructures and services.
• Collaborate with customers, IT managers, developers, team members, systems administrators, database administrators, and security administrators to jointly develop highly available application infrastructures & services that meet business & programmatic needs.
• Manage systems architecture throughout their systems development life cycles, including risk analysis, capacity planning, highly available systems architecture and design, development, quality assurance, documentation, standards enforcement, implementations and upgrades, security compliance & vulnerability remediation, and performance monitoring.
• Operationally support application infrastructure technologies (For Example:
  Java Play, Oracle Web Logic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, load balancers, API gateways, or Docker
  
  EE/AWS EKS), and various enterprise commercial off the shelf (COTS) stacks.
• Provide superior problem remediation support within the application tier environments in support of negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).
• Support the transition of our existing virtualized application infrastructures into containerized services to help drive configuration standardization & agility, CI/CD automation & orchestration, and security enhancement objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Provide solutions to complex problems that require in‑depth analysis of tangible and intangible factors and the creative use of established and/or innovative methods in architecting and designing application infrastructures and services.
• Leverage advanced subject matter expertise in one or more application infrastructure engineering areas to support the development of advanced application architectures.
• Leverage advanced subject matter expertise in systems programming, automation, and orchestration tooling to automate the creation, configuration, and management of complex systems.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q‑level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Broad experience in implementing and managing application and cloud service infrastructure; including monitoring, operational support, security, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with systems programming and/or automation tools to create,…