Senior Cloud Engineer

Herndon, Virginia | Overland Park, Kansas

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• Monitoring and maintaining existing cloud infrastructure in support of our client base.
• Performing deployments of new application versions
• Provisioning new production and development environments
• Patching systems
• Responding to downtime incidents
• Researching performance and availability issues
• Determining root causes of downtime issues and implementing solutions to system deployment problems.

• 5 or more years of experience related to Unix System Administration, including the provisioning and maintenance of software and virtual hardware in the AWS Cloud.
• 4 or more years of experience deploying and administering systems in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including hands on experience with VPC networking, Kubernetes (EKS), Route 53, EC2 instances, RDS databases, NS1, security group configurations and other AWS services.
• Experience provisioning, managing, and mounting enterprise grade VPSA solutions.
• Experience administering HAProxy enterprise (or similar) proxy.
• Experience administering CentOS / RHEL based systems with minimal support, to include patching, performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• Extensive experience with BASH scripting.
• Ability to secure an AWS cloud account and its services utilizing access controls, backups and firewalls.
• Ability to upgrade Java container-based systems with new releases and patches.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and troubleshoot problems with efficiency.
• Resourcefulness and problem-solving aptitude.
• On call availability (nights and weekends).
• Experience with RightScale cloud.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Collaboration: Work with your peers within your team and outside your team to help develop these solutions.
• Learning and Teaching: be a continuous learner, generously teach others what you learn.
• Feedback: provide respectful yet honest feedback to leadership about how to better achieve the teams goals.
• BS in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.

• Prior experience with Java programming and logs; the ability to troubleshoot Java stack traces.
• Prior experience in a full-stack engineering role, including Oracle and SQL Server relational database tuning.

Salary will generally fall between $102,718 - $135,500 before adjustment for geographic differences. Recruiter can confirm if position is incentive eligible.

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