Cloud System Engineer, L2

White Sky Technologies specializes in systems engineering and technology management solutions for U.S. Government clients. We are committed to meeting our customer’s needs with a dedicated and highly qualified workforce.

As a System Engineer you are responsible for providing support to our web-based mission application and its customers. This software product is a full life cycle software suite that provides audio & video ingest, storage, query, playback, analysis and transcription features. Our application is used by national and tactical analysts on small systems (laptops) and large systems (server farms). You will be working with technologies including Amazon Web Services / VMs, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Kabana, GitLab CI/CD, Jira and Confluence.


Responsibilities:

Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Monitor performance across Tier 1 systems
Ensure system security and compliance
Resolve customer support tickets through Jira Service Desk
Document testing and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Perform application testing, including test case creation and maintenance
Execute application deployments and upgrades
Assist in migration efforts to a HCI environment
Provide application training and demos to a variety of customers
Collaborate with development teams and users to design and implement new features
Occasionally respond to mission-critical after-hours calls
Participate in minor CONUS/OCONUS travel (~1-2 times per year)

Skills Required:

Experience with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines
Experience working in Linux environments (RHEL 8/9, Rocky 8/9)
Experience with Grafana
Experience with Jura and Confluence
Experience providing customer support through Jira Service Desk
Experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with HCI and/or AWS cloud services
Experience with STE/STN & OS hardening

Desired Skills:

Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana
Experience with IT Instances Authoritative Data Source (ADS)
Experience with Terraform & Ansible

Qualifications:

Fourteen (14) years of experience required as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
Active TS/SCI w/ poly

Salary range - $180,000-$215,000, based on qualifications/experience
Please check out our amazing benefits and generous PTO plan HERE!!
https://whiteskytechnologiesllc.com/index.php/employee-benefits/

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