Cloud DevOps Engineer

Red Line Performance Solutions (Red Line) has been in the HPC solutions engineering services business for over 26 years and is consistently determined to keep the "bar of excellence" quite high for new hires. This enables Red Line to accomplish what other firms cannot and promotes a high level of staff retention. We offer services ranging from full life cycle HPC systems engineering to remote managed services to HPC program analysis and development.

We are located in the Washington, DC area and are looking for the right candidate to join us as a Dev Ops Engineer.

This position will support the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) Integrated Information Services contract. This is a mid-level Dev Ops position supporting variety of projects to evaluate emerging technologies and solutions for the enterprise. Ideal candidates will have strong technical aptitude, hands on programming capability, curiosity, and desire to build cool innovative tools while working as a member of an Agile team.

This position involves work in a Linux/AWS Cloud environment supporting analytics-focused cloud data architectures.

The Cloud Dev Ops Engineer will collaborate with the AWS Cloud Architect and AWS Dev Ops/Automation Engineer in architecting, configuring, and testing AWS cloud native services to implement an authoritative data environment using AWS services.

US citizenship, living in the US for the last 3 years and the ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance are mandatory requirements for this position.
This is a remote position but will work Eastern Time core hours. This full-time, direct hire position offers a full benefits package including paid time off, 401k match, short- and long-term disability coverage and PPO health care benefits.

• Implement and support AWS services: API Gateway, WAF, Lambda, SQS, EC2, IAM, S3, Security Group, VPC, etc.
• Strong familiarity with modern Dev Ops principles, practices, methods, and tools.
• Provide implementation guidance/support to the customer throughout the project life cycle.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large- and small-scale systems
• Provide experienced knowledge and/or develop competency on Terraform, Ansible, Cloud native automation tools
• Provision, maintain, and support AWS EKS clusters and containerized microservices to enable scalable, reliable data processing workflows.
• Configure, deploy, and manage AWS EC2 instances running PBS (Portable Batch System) to support batch processing and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
• Administer AWS IAM roles, policies, and permissions, ensuring appropriate access controls based on user and group assignments.
• Collaborate with team to develop, stand-up, and support of cloud platform using a variety of programming languages and cloud-native technologies.
• Develop and implement systems using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager)
• Develop tools and documentation to enable the support organizations to resolve customer issues, including complex technical scenarios dealing with cloud architecture.
• Implement and support containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) framework solutions in deployment and operations
• Integrate systems using a wide variety of protocols like REST, SOAP, MQ, TCP/IP, JSON, and others.

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline
• 5+ years of experience in Linux and/or Windows
• 5+ years of experience developing & engineering enterprise Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) using leading cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Must include networking, compute, storage, database,…