NightwingInformation Technology is seeking Cloud Platform Engineers to help operate, develop, and improve our network and server/application infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and Azure. You’ll work in a rapidly changing, fastpaced environment supporting 20+ applications across three distinct networks, each with its own data protection, connectivity, and support model. In this role, you will build secure, scalable, and costoptimized cloud environments that empower our development and operations teams.
  

Key Responsibilities 

• Use and develop automation (Ansible roles,Terraformmodules, Packer, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, AWS CLI) to provision and configure servers, services, applications, and security controls.

• Setup and maintain applications in AWS GovCloudand commercial, utilizing Dev/Production environments

• Manage AWS specific resources much as VPCs, EC2, ECS, EKS, S3,Control Tower,and LZA

• Lead technical projects,workingwith team members and inter-departmental groups to plan,execute, and deliver new features or capabilities

• Follow best practices for disaster recovery/business continuity in server, network, and security design

• Manage Linux and Windowsservers, following best practicesfor logging, monitoring, and system maintenance

• Provide expertiseand supportfor IT Operational management of security monitoring,compliance, andauditingtools

 
Required Skills and Experience 

• 6 Years ofExperiencein IT (Operations,Security, or Development), or DevOps

• 4+ Years of experiencewith Linux System Administration

• Familiar with Windows System Administration

• 1+ Years of experience with networking (TCP/IP,switching,routers,firewalls,etc)

• 1+Years of experience running services withinAWSor another cloud provider (Azure,etc)

• Architecting new servicesusing AWS resources

• Troubleshootingresources(Load balancers, Autoscaling groups, security groups)

• Familiarity withIACautomationand configuration managementtools to manage and deploy servers and applications (Ansible, Terraform, Cloudformation, Packer,  Python, Bash, Powershell, etc)

• Familiarity with source code management ofany code/scripts/documentation used forautomation (git, GitLab, BitBucket) 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong sense of accountability tomeet work deadlines and support sprint goals

• Must be a U.S Citizen

 
Desired Skills and Experiences 

• Experience developing automated solutionsutilizing docker-composeand Helm

• Familiarity with multi-account AWS architecture (Organizations, Control Tower)

• Familiarity withwithmulti-account Microsoft Azure (Sovereign Cloud Architecture)

• Experience working with containerized applications using Docker and/or Kubernetes

• ExperiencedevelopingCI/CD pipelinesfor delivery and testingof services/applications

• Experience within AWS GovCloud

• Professional Certifications such as: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Linux+, Security+, CCNA

• Required Education 
  Bachelor of Science Degree in a related engineering field; OR  

• 6 additional years of Engineering, Computer or Information Science applicable professional experience in lieu of degree.