CloudOps Administrator [Journeyman Computer Network Architect]

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About Us: Southern Maryland IT Services, Inc is a small but growing company providing infrastructure Cloud deployment support to Federal clients. We have an opportunity to join a team providing support, with the broadest scope for the exercise of independent initiative and judgment, the Cloud Architect has senior-level technical responsibility to closely work with the Enterprise Architecture, Applications, Infrastructure, and IT security teams to build a strategy, and develop an implementation plan to migrate NSF’s data center to the cloud. He/she will serve as the in-house expert in advising senior management in analyzing various options and recommending technical solutions migrating the NSF IT services to the cloud.

About You: A hardworking, competitive type with that is driven to succeed with a natural sense of urgency. You are a self-starter with a reputation for being an effective team player, who proactively looks to improve and add efficiency to current processes. You exercise judgment in the decision-making process in order to provide consistent customer service. You are highly proficient in problem solving and are able to follow a systematic troubleshooting approach.

Job Responsibilities: The prospective candidate will function in a teaming support role responsible for maintaining the corporate applications environment for the Science Foundation. This environment currently utilizes a number of AWS services, such as EKS, RDS, EC2, and etc.  You will:

·       Make contributions supporting end-to-end Platform application delivery, including Infrastructure provisioning & automation and integration with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) platforms, using existing and emerging technologies

·       Work both independently with limited supervision and collaboratively on a fast paced team to proactively and reactively manage the on prem and AWS cloud environment

·       Work as part of a small team of about 10 system administrators supporting approximately 500 Linux servers.

·       Work in enterprise environment as it relates to daily, weekly and monthly security patching utiling Satellite and Ansible on Linux 

·       Troubleshoot/solve complex technical problems.

·       Deal with complex customer escalated issues.

Job Requirements:

·       Bachelor's Degree or equivalent 

·       1-3 years related AWS Cloud and/or DevOps experience

·       Demonstrated automation and scripting experience ; ability to write cloud formation templates or Terraform scripts a plus

·       Experience and/or exposure to Jenkins for continuous integration

·       Ability to utilize and work with a large variety of open source technologies and tools

·       Demonstrated ability to a problem solving, potentially involving multiple technologies and disciplines

·       Ability to obtain a Position of Trust Clearance

·       Ability to work onsite at the customer's location in Alexandria, VA if required; though 100% work-from-home is the current posture

·       24x7 On-call rotation for afterhours support

·       Nights and/or weekends troubleshooting, maintenance and any other special circumstances

·       Self-starting individual with the ability to work independently on issues with minimal supervision

·       Detail-oriented technical and strong analytical skills

·       Exceptional customer service and follow up skills

·       Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

·       Organized and detailed documentation skills.

·       Ability to perform Log Analysis and error resolution is a plus.  

Company DescriptionSouthern Maryland IT Services, Inc is a small but growing company providing infrastructure Cloud deployment support to Federal clients. We have an opportunity to join a team providing support to our client in the early stages of their effort to migrate from a legacy on premise Infrastructure to a full Cloud infrastructure. The focus of this effort will be to not only build infrastructure and applications in the Cloud but to also automate these processes using tools such as CloudFormation, Ansible, and Jenkins. We build customer relationships in order to understand unique customer needs and provide technical expertise and a comprehensive understanding of customer environments. We are looking for an energetic DevOps Engineer who is looking to be part of an organizational switch from traditional build and deploy to DevOps automation and AWS platform.Company DescriptionSouthern Maryland IT Services, Inc is a small but growing company providing infrastructure Cloud deployment support to Federal clients. We have an opportunity to join a team providing support to our client in the early stages of their effort to migrate from a legacy on premise Infrastructure to a full Cloud infrastructure. The focus of this effort will be to not only build infrastructure and applications in the Cloud but to also automate these processes using tools such as CloudFormation, Ansible, and Jenkins. We build customer relationships in order to understand unique customer needs and provide technical expertise and a comprehensive understanding of customer environments. We are looking for an energetic DevOps Engineer who is looking to be part of an organizational switch from traditional build and deploy to DevOps automation and AWS platform.