Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

As a Sr. cloud Infrastructure engineer, you will work with our customer for developing/engineering of solutions to maximize system reliability & automation. The person will work with a team responsible for ensuring mission critical business functions are running. The candidate should have work experience developing and running distributed systems and experience with automated provisioning and management of AWS infrastructure and services.

You will assist teams through the analysis of specific business requirements for alignment with technology architecture, deliver quality client solutions, and communicate progress to client teams. You will demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Develop and coordinate cloud architecture across diverse areas including application development, identity and access management, network and data management, and security.

About the Company:

Spatial Front, Inc is a fast-growing small company providing IT solutions to federal, state, local governments, and the private sector. SFI is nationally recognized by Inc. Magazine by being awarded the Inc. 5000 Award. We pride ourselves on being one of the premier employers in the VA, MD, DC area. SFI is an industry leader in delivering cutting-edge technical solutions and mission support services bringing our customers’ businesses to the forefront of the 21st century. Our corporate commitment to excellence in client services and product development means that our people are attentive, hands-on, and bring industry-leading expertise to meet and exceed your needs in a straightforward, timely, and cost-effective manner.

Every employee at SFI is a leader. We don’t settle. We blaze our own path and inspire those around us into action. We motivate others to reach their full potential. To learn more about us visit: www.spatialfront.com

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• At least ten (10) years of related technical work experience.
• Ability to work and produce results in an agile and fast-paced environment with dynamic deadlines.
• Familiarity with basic cloud concepts (ELB/VPC/IAM/API/Gateway/Lambda/EKS/EC2/S3/RDS, Infrastructure as code, Hybrid Networking.)
• Able to develop and troubleshoot JSON or YAML object scripts
• Understanding of orchestration tools (Jenkins, GitLab Runner, ansible, or AWS SSM)
• Familiarity with common protocols including but not limited to: DNS, SMTP, HTTP(s), SFTP, SCP
• Familiarity with Active Directory and/or other LDAP based solutions.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering Kubernetes and container platforms (OpenShift, ECS, EKS, AKS)
• Troubleshoot and resolve network, automation pipelines, and infrastructure issues
• Understanding of network proxies and firewall rules and able to route traffic through them as needed
• Work on configuration management /orchestration suite, know where its broken, work towards fixing them and explore new alternatives
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring technologies such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.
• Install and configure software, gather test data, and perform debugging.
• Must be able to work independently and self-directed, as well as, within a team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ability to translate complex technical topics to senior stakeholders within the client organization and advise clients on leading cloud practices and architectural approaches with high communication skills
• Demonstrate skills of cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, orchestration, elastic scalability, serverless designs, networking, security, and fiscal accountability)
• Experience designing, reviewing and implementing DevSecOps and Agile standards and practices
• Demonstrate working knowledge of DevSecOps tool chains and processes. Work on configuration management /orchestration suite, know where its broken, work towards fixing them and explore new alternatives
• Build large scale high performing, secure Kubernetes and other application platform infrastructure on AWS etc. Working with various Cloud and development tools including Jira, Git, ECR, Sonatype Nexus,etc.
• Experience with various Kubernetes and container platforms (OpenShift, EKS, AKS)
• Experience with scripting and orchestration including GitLab Runner, Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Experience automating the software dev/test/deployment lifecycle with continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Experience with scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting actively running systems
• Experience with Microservices, Functions, Event-driven/reactive programming or other Cloud Native architectures
• Extensive project experience migrating from legacy systems and deploying complex cloud-based solutions
• Develop architectural artifacts to lead the delivery of a successful implementation. Architect cloud-native, hybrid, or multi-cloud solutions to meet the client’s needs
• Project experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing core infrastructure, networking and cloud-based services for business teams or consumers
• Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
• ?Develop / Maintain Documentation on operational, configuration, or other procedures.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Working experience with GitLab
• Experience working with large-scale relational database system (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL)
• Familiar with common programming language (such as Node.js or Python) and can help developer troubleshoot issues if needed
• Experience with Web Applications
• Microservices Webs service (SOAP or RESTful) development and deployment
• Knowledge of/experience using Agile/Scrum
• methodology

Certifications (preferred but not required.): AWS Certification(s) such as Solutions Architect, Professional, DevOps Engineer Pro, SysOps Admin and Developer Associate.

Additional Information:

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be Authorized to work in the U.S
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.
• Public Trust background investigations can take approximately four to eight weeks and requires fingerprinting.

Other Information:

• The salary for this position is $100,000 - $180,000 annually
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position.
• Please no agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-corp.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal-opportunity Employer, 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.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.