Cloud Engineer - Reliability

MAG Aerospace is seeking a highly skilled Cloud Engineer (Reliability) to join our growing organization in Ft. Liberty, NC (formerly Ft. Bragg).

This position provides an opportunity to further advance the cutting-edge technology that supports some of our nation’s core defense/intelligence services and systems. You will work with a team of diverse architects and engineers with backgrounds in PaaS, DevOps, Security, and IaaS operations in order to spread knowledge and practices. All in support of the Government Program Office’s global cloud and platform services environments.

*This role is contingent upon concurrence from USG*
**This position is sign-on bonus eligible**

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the engineering and life-cycle management of, mostly cloud-based, platforms to attain a high degree of reliability and security
• Responsible for the management of production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, performance for cloud-hosted applications
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Minimum Requirements

Knowledge and Skills

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience working with container orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes
• Relevant experience and ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Working knowledge of Shell/BASH scripter
• Relevant experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and S3
• Possess a proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks along with an ability to offer and implement solutions to address these
• Experience creating dashboards to track service health that appeal to both technical and non-technical audiences preferably with Splunk
• Excellent written and technical briefing skills – can effectively communicate with teammates and leadership

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM-related field (i.e. Computer Science)
  

Other Qualifications

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working with identity and access management technologies and solutions
• Experience with Agile development methodologies; using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions, specifically Splunk
• Any of the following: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or any Professional level of the above-mentioned certs where applicable
• 1+ years’ experience working with Gitlab
• Skilled at creating Ansible playbooks, working with AWX/Ansible Tower

The position is contingent upon candidate’s ability to meet physical and medical requirements as needed by the position; including compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local jurisdictional requirements.

Government or customer site-specific requirements may include, but are not limited to, proof of full COVID-19 vaccination status, except in circumstances where a candidate is legally entitled to an accommodation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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MAG provides reasonable accommodation to applicants under the guidance of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam-Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, and certain state and/or local laws.

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