Cloud Architect IV

Overview

New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That’s our focus  ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers—literally. We build upon ideas that have guided generations, then share our discoveries to inspire generations to come. Your mission—your opportunity—is to seek out the answers that bring us one step closer. If you’re driven to discover, create, and inspire something that lasts a lifetime and beyond, you’re ready for JPL.

Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence.

JPL is seeking a Cloud Architect to join the Enterprise Information Systems Division in support of JPL’s institutional missions and projects. As part of the Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations IT team, the candidate will provide daily operational and expert support for highly available Cloud, COTS, and custom applications, systems, and platforms to solve a wide array of customer needs and requests and enable projects to perform and deliver on milestones and deadlines to NASA and non-NASA sponsors.

This Software Systems Engineer is responsible for the development of a comprehensive multi‑Cloud strategy and implementation plan to include installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of software and systems along with related support infrastructure. They will participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. They will ensure that software systems and related procedures adhere to organizational values and sponsor and cybersecurity requirements.

Candidates must be self‑starters and be able to solve complex problems with minimal supervision.

• Provide expert support of Cloud environments, applications and services, as well as software and solution development capabilities.
• Experience implementing Cloud infrastructure, applications, and processes, as well as developing strategies and support processes for cost and performance management and reporting.
• Experience maintaining core enterprise COTS and custom developed applications in highly available environments.
• Experience automating provisioning, deployment, patching, and configuration management using Git, Ansible and other industry standard technologies, as well as integrating various technologies including Open Shift, VMware, Jenkins, and Ansible AWX.
• Manage, maintain, and design deployment of various customer software support programs including Git Hub, Artifactory, Jira Service Desk, and other Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence, including system engineering tools like JAMA and Teamwork Cloud, and engineering tools like Teamcenter and Thermal Desktop.
• Deploy and maintain various authentication methods utilizing LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos, SSO, and RSA multifactor authentication, along with Cloud-based federated identity technologies.
• Develop middleware tools in Python, BASH, Power Shell to unify multiple disparate systems and simplify the process of account deployment. Other programming languages are a plus.
• Maintain storage and virtualization infrastructure on TrueNAS, Net App, and VMware.
• Maintain container environments and implement container orchestration strategies using Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, and Podman.
• Streamline OS upgrades in Red Hat Enterprise Linux utilizing Ansible and Open Shift for virtual and bare-metal workstations.
• Demonstrate competence working in Agile development environments.
• Contribute to the regular maintenance and support of many other enterprise applications as well as help to maintain the underlying application infrastructure in conjunction with the System Administrators.
• Work with cross‑functional teams, including development, operations and security teams to design and implement secure and scalable solutions within a mission environment.
• Oversee and direct the work of other software engineers to ensure mission success and high availability of the IT infrastructure.
• Provide Tier 2/3 (Escalation)…