Job Summary:
Black Canyon Consulting LLC is searching for a Cloud Engineer to support their work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The role involves assisting with the operation and development of cloud services in Google GCP and Amazon AWS, while collaborating with developers and operations managers to maintain stable production services.
Responsibilities:
• Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI's Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments
• Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture
• Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies
• Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services
• Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
• Experience managing Cloud resources within Amazon AWS or Google's Cloud Platform, particularly: User management, Roles and permissions, Compute instances, VPCs and subnets, Routing, Firewall rules/security groups
• Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks
• Self-starter, able to work independently
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)
• Ability to manage firewall rules
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl)
Preferred:
• Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Experience with MS Windows systems administration
• Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
• Experience managing resources with puppet
• Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their native CLI or API
• Experience with cloud automation tools (packer, terraform, cloud-init)
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as nagios, splunk, telegraf, influxdb.
• Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket)
• Experience with git
• Experience with container technologies (docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl
Company:
Black Canyon Consulting, LLC (BCC) is a privately held, Woman-Owned Small Business, whose team of professionals bring over 125 years of experience providing innovative, tactical, and strategic Program and IT Management Support Services. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Fairfax, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.