Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Position Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Position ID: TA279

Location(s): On-site; Chantilly, VA

Application Deadline: We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis

Security Clearance Requirement: An active TS/SCI Security Clearance with the ability to obtain or maintain a polygraph.

Job Description

Trusted Space is seeking a Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a bachelor’s degree or higher and 2+ years of experience to join our team.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with DoW customers and stakeholders throughout system lifecycle in development, integration & test, deployment, and operations of a highly sophisticated ground system architecture.
• Help build mission-critical, highly available, high-performance networked systems in a team-oriented environment. Build and deploy cloud instances and applications utilizing automation tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Develop deployment and maintenance Ansible playbooks for the purpose of automating rapid installation and system patching within multiple large-scale environments.
• Develop systems engineering-related documentation to include operational concept, requirements, specifications, interface control documents, and validation & verification plans.
• Conduct system planning and design for expansion of these resources to meet program needs.
• Support ground system related trade studies.

Qualifications

• An active Top Secret/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain or maintain a polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of experience in a systems engineering related field.
• Experience working with Linux-based and Windows-based operating systems and understanding of the operating systems’ concepts and functionality.
• Experience creating, modifying, and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks for system configuration and system sustainment activities (e.g. patching).
• Experience with host/application integration into an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) system such as Active Directory, FreeIPA, or other similar systems.
• Experience in building systems up from bare metal, performing software package installation and update, operating system configuration, and application troubleshooting.
• Familiarity in leveraging automation tools to perform security hardening.
• Demonstrated experience in creating virtual machine templates.

Desired Skills and Experience

• You have experience in designing, developing, and integrating a complete satellite ground system to include infrastructure, processing frameworks, and software components.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with management, the customer and tenants across DoW.
• You are detail/process oriented, can multi-task, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Experience with multiple Red Hat tools, to include Red Hat OpenStack (RHOSP), Red Hat OpenShift (RHOCP), Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO), and Red Hat Satellite highly preferred.
• Experience deploying, configuring, managing databases such as deploying/operating PostgreSQL/MySQL (backups, HA patterns)
• Experience leveraging system monitoring tools, to include log aggregation (Splunk), infrastructure telemetry (Sensu), and visualization (Grafana, Kibana)
• You can express yourself confidently, concisely, and accurately through written and oral communications.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $100,000 - $135,000. Please note that this range is a general guideline and can vary. Trusted Space, LLC considers several factors when extending an offer including, but not limited to: scope, location, position responsibilities, education/training, key skills and business considerations.

Benefits

• Trusted Space seeks to create an environment where Employees are empowered and supported to achieve their full potential.
• We encourage life-long learning within our agile and innovative work environment.
• We offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans; life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; 401(k) plan; paid holidays and generous paid time off; short-term and long-term disability insurance; and other benefits to promote health, wellness, and a positive work-life balance.
• About Trusted Space Trusted Space is the premier provider of trusted autonomy and battlespace management software solutions enabling machine speed sensing, sense making, decision making, and acting for critical space and intelligence missions.
• Our portfolio includes trusted autonomy software products, real-time image processing capabilities, advanced space mission engineering services, and space operations & training solutions.
• We empower government and commercial customers to achieve mission superiority in space reconnaissance & surveillance, dynamic space operations, space-based ISR, and ground/command & control (C2) systems.
• Rooted in our adherence to the Golden Rule – to treat others as we want to be treated – Trusted Space fosters a culture of innovation, mission-focus, agility, and technical excellence.
• We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, world-class benefits, and work-life balance.
• We encourage life-long learning and continuous improvement in all we do.
• We consider it a privilege to work with our customers to provide solutions to their most difficult national security and intelligence challenges.
• Trusted Space, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
• All aspects of employment are decided based on qualifications, merit, competence, performance, and business need.

DISCLAIMER

Trusted Space, LLC only uses the respective domains of trustedspace.com and trustedspace.us for official contact and any other domains are likely a scam and do not originate from our company. Trusted Space will never ask a candidate for access or pass codes to personal accounts including e-mails, bank accounts, CashApp, Paypal, Venmo, etc.