Cloud System Engineer, Non-Common

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, Confluence.

Responsibilities:

Support the DevOps team in testing and troubleshooting our web application
Collaborate with operations and development teams to identify testing needs and develop test plans
Triage reported operational issues
Monitor Tier 1 application health and status metrics
Report issues detected during testing or system usage via the ticketing system
Perform system and application installations and upgrades
Provide operational support and/or training to users
Monitor and respond to application related Jura Service Desk tickets
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 Jira and Confluence
Experience providing customer support through Jira Service Desk

Desired Skills:

Familiarity with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ruby)
Familiarity with containerized applications, specifically using Docker/Kubernetes
Familiarity with BDD testing frameworks (Cucumber, Spock, Behave)
Familiarity with automated configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet)
Experience with Elastic Search and Kibana
Experience with HCI/AWS Cloud services
Experience with STE/STN & OS hardening
Experience with IT Instances Authoritative Data Source (ADS)

Qualifications:
Ten (10) 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-$210,000, 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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