Linux Cloud Engineer

About the Role

Karthik Consulting, LLC, is looking for a Linux Cloud Engineer to join our rapidly growing team headquartered in Tysons, VA! This position supports a project located in Bethesda, MD with remote flexibility. Qualified candidates should have at least five years of hands-on experience working with Linux and federal or commercial consulting experience. This role requires candidates to have at least a master’s degree, 10 years of related work experience and the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI’s Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments
• Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture
• Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies
• Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services
• Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) and ten years of industry experience in Software Development/Linux Systems Administration
• At least ten years of professional experience with five years of experience demonstrated experience working with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
• Experience managing Cloud resources within Amazon AWS or Google’s Cloud Platform, particularly:
  • User management
  • Roles and permissions
  • Compute instances
  • VPCs and subnets
  • routing
  • firewall rules/security groups
• Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks
• Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/Bash shell, Ruby, Python, Perl)
• Self-starter, able to work independently
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)
• Ability to manage firewall rules
• Strong troubleshooting skills

Desired Qualifications

• Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Experience with MS Windows systems administration
• Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
• Experience managing resources with puppet
• Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their native CLI or API
• Experience with cloud automation tools (packer, terraform, cloud-init)
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as nagios, splunk, telegraf, influxdb.
• Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket)
• Experience with git
• Experience with container technologies (docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Experience programming in Bourne/Bash shell, Ruby, Python, Perl