Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Location: Springfield, VA Clearance: TS/SCI Citizenship: US Citizenship Required

Whether running countries, corporations, or courtrooms, our clients bear the responsibility for shaping the lives of millions. At Intellectix, we are on a mission to empower them with innovative technical solutions and drive transformational change. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be the cornerstone of this mission, ensuring the security of crucial data, optimizing IT infrastructure, and simplifying business processes through cutting-edge software systems. Because at Intellectix, it's not what we do, it's why we do it.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Build and maintain platform as a service offering using RedHat OpenShift.
• Work with A&A team to maintain security requirements for the operation of systems.
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
• Produce detailed documentation.
• Maintain system in AWS environment using EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS.
• Maintain system in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID.
• Automate and optimize service deployments.

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer programming, science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• 5+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years of experience with platform as a service offerings (e.g., RedHat OpenShift, Tanzu, etc).

Required Skills

• Prior experience building and maintaining platform as a service offerings via cloud-based providers.
• Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions.
• Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker).
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and continuous integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus.
• Strong communication skills.

Desired Skills

• Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters.
• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt, or Terraform.
• Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java.
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMWare).
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development.

Desired Certifications

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
• RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator.

Join Intellectix and be part of a dynamic team that thrives on tempo, teamwork, and technical excellence. Your skills and expertise will contribute to creating a safer and smarter tomorrow.

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.