Senior Cloud Systems Administrator

The role

You will design, automate, manage, and optimize production multi-cloud environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role supports high-throughput scientific computing and enterprise applications for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

What you will do

• Design, administer, and maintain environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Author, test, review, and maintain modular infrastructure code using Terraform
• Design and maintain VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, firewall rules, and hybrid interconnects
• Implement and maintain telemetry, dashboards, and alerting across AWS CloudWatch/CloudTrail and GCP Cloud Operations
• Provide support for multi-cloud infrastructure
• Respond to security incidents, performance monitoring, and tuning

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of dedicated, hands-on enterprise Unix/Linux systems administration experience
• 3+ years of direct operational experience administering production workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong, demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and git
• High proficiency with Kubernetes, including multi-cloud and cloud/on-prem hybrid environments
• Practical working knowledge of configuration management using Puppet (manifests, module structure, and Hiera)
• Experience with high-throughput web services, including HTTP/S internals, request flows, caching semantics, and performance tuning
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and Bash
• Proven ability to operate independently and collaboratively in a team of senior cloud administrators

Nice to have

• Practical operational familiarity with Alma Linux 8 or similar distributions
• Experience managing cloud environments in federal or biomedical research contexts subject to NIST / FedRAMP security frameworks

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k plan with employer contribution
• paid holidays
• vacation
• tuition reimbursement

About the company

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is a professional service and technology focused organization.