Cloud Engineer

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

• Strong experience 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


• 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


• Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl)

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