Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer

LLNL$175K — $222K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizenship required for obtaining a DOE Q-level security clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience.
  • Extensive experience managing application and cloud service infrastructures.
  • Strong systems programming and automation tool expertise.
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
  • Advanced knowledge of cloud services and operating systems administration.
  • Experience with key application infrastructure technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement highly available application infrastructures for IT service delivery.
  • Automate service orchestration and operational management using programming skills.
  • Collaborate with teams to develop application infrastructures that meet business needs.
  • Manage systems architecture through their entire development lifecycle.
  • Support technologies like Java Play, Oracle WebLogic, and containers.
  • Provide problem remediation support in application environments to meet SLAs.
  • Drive the transition of virtualized infrastructures to containerized services.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work schedule with remote options.
  • 401(k) plan available.
  • Educational reimbursement opportunities.
  • Relocation assistance for new hires.
  • Acknowledged as one of the best places to work by Glassdoor.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We have an opening for a Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer. You will architect, implement, and administer the cloud and application infrastructure required to support enterprise applications across the Laboratory's business services and programmatic missions. This position is in the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division in the Computing Directorate, supporting the LivIT Program.

This position offers a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.

You will
  • Architect and implement highly available application infrastructures required to support enterprise IT service delivery.
  • Leverage systems programming expertise to automate and manage service orchestration, monitoring, configuration management, security, and patch management of application infrastructures and services.
  • Collaborate with customers, IT managers, developers, team members, systems administrators, database administrators, and security administrators to jointly develop highly available application infrastructures & services that meet business & programmatic needs.
  • Manage systems architecture throughout their systems development lifecycles, including risk analysis, capacity planning, highly available systems architecture and design, development, quality assurance, documentation, standards enforcement, implementations and upgrades, security compliance & vulnerability remediation, and performance monitoring.
  • Operationally support application infrastructure technologies (For Example: Java Play, Oracle WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, Gitlab, Atlassian, Terraform, Ansible, load balancers, API gateways, Docker, or Kubernetes/AWS EKS), and various enterprise commercial off the shelf (COTs) stacks.
  • Provide superior problem remediation support within the application tier environments in support of negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLA's).
  • Support the transition of our existing virtualized application infrastructures into containerized services to help drive configuration standardization & agility, CI/CD automation & orchestration, and security enhancement objectives.
  • Provide solutions to complex problems that require in-depth analysis of tangible and intangible factors and the creative use of established and/or innovative methods in architectingand designing application infrastructures and services.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
  • Significant experience implementing and managing application and cloud service infrastructure; including monitoring, operational support, security, and lifecycle management.
  • Advanced experience with systems programming and/or automation tools to create, configure, monitor, and automate the management of complex application infrastructures required to maintain the requisite availability and security posture of deployed services.
  • Significant experience collaborating with customers, IT managers, developers, database administrators, systems administrators, and security administrators to jointly create application infrastructure services that meet business requirements.
  • Advanced experience with public and/or private cloud services, and UNIX and/or Windows O/S administration, security, and performance tuning.
  • Advanced experience managing application infrastructure technologies, such as Java Play, Oracle WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, load balancers, API gateways, DockerEE/AWS EKS, or various enterprise commercial off the shelf (COTs) stacks.
  • Significant experience architecting and managing application and cloud service infrastructures; including implementation, monitoring, operational support, security, and lifecycle management.
  • Advanced communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills necessary to effectively present, explain, and advise senior management and/or external sponsors.

Qualifications We Desire
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc.
  • Experience leveraging Splunk or equivalent SIEM environment to operationally manage application infrastructure services.
  • Experience working in a compliance-driven and secure environment, as well as project management experience with large, enterprise COTs application implementations.

Pay Range

$175,530 - $222,564 Annually

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Additional Information

#LI-Hybrid

Position Information

This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.

Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?
  • Included in 2026Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
  • Flexible Benefits Package
  • 401(k)
  • Relocation Assistance
  • Education Reimbursement Program
  • Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
  • Our values - visit https://www.llnl.gov/inclusion/our-values

Security Clearance

This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance.If you are selected, wewill initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if youmeet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.

Pre-Employment Drug Test

External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.

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