Cloud Engineer
Location: Springfield, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI
Citizenship: US Citizenship Required
Whether running countries, corporations, or courtrooms, our clients bear the responsibility for shaping the lives of millions. At Intellectix, we are on a mission to empower them with innovative technical solutions and drive transformational change. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be the cornerstone of this mission, ensuring the security of crucial data, optimizing IT infrastructure, and simplifying business processes through cutting-edge software systems. Because at Intellectix, it's not what we do, it's why we do it.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Build and Maintain Platform as a Service Offering using RedHat OpenShift.
- Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for the operation of systems.
- Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
- Produce detailed documentation.
- Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS.
- Maintain System in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID.
- Automate and optimize service deployments.
Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
- 5+ years of IT experience.
- 5+ years of experience with Platform as a Service Offerings (e.g., RedHat OpenShift, Tanzu, etc).
Required Skills:
- Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud-based providers.
- Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions.
- Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions.
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker).
- Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services.
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus.
- Strong communication skills.
Desired Skills:
- Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters.
- Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI.
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt, or Terraform.
- Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java.
- Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMWare).
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development.
Desired Certifications:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
- RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator.
Join Intellectix and be part of a dynamic team that thrives on tempo, teamwork, and technical excellence. Your skills and expertise will contribute to creating a safer and smarter tomorrow.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
