Senior Cloud Systems Administrator
Black Canyon Consulting
Bethesda
Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Cloud Systems Administrator to join an established team of cloud professionals supporting high-throughput scientific computing and enterprise applications for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD.
In this role, you will design, automate, manage, and optimize production multi-cloud environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are seeking a self-sufficient administrator with deep Unix/Linux systems administration experience who can manage production cloud infrastructure from day one.
Responsibilities
- Multi-Cloud Administration: Design, administer, and maintain world-class environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Author, test, review, and maintain modular infrastructure code using Terraform.
- Cloud Networking & Security: Design and maintain VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, firewall rules, and hybrid interconnects ensuring compliance with federal security standards.
- Monitoring & Observability: Implement and maintain telemetry, dashboards, and alerting across AWS CloudWatch/CloudTrail and GCP Cloud Operations.
- Operations & Troubleshooting: Provide support for multi-cloud infrastructure, including responding to security incidents, performance monitoring, and tuning.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of dedicated, hands-on enterprise Unix/Linux systems administration experience, with deep technical proficiency in systems internals, networking protocols, filesystems, and troubleshooting.
- 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) for systems integration and node provisioning.
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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 and Salary
We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.
We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location.
If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!
Similar jobs
Housekeeper| Full-Time | 8Am - 4:30Pm
Bethesda Brings out the Best in Talented, Caring People!At Bethesda, more than 1,200 employees dedicate their careers to improving the li...
Cyber Security Engineer (Job 1480)
About UsDLH delivers improved health and national security readiness solutions for federal programs through science research and developm...
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
OverviewBlack Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst to lead the design, development, implementa...
Junior Reengineering Specialist
OverviewBlack Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Junior Reengineering Specialist to support business process analysis, workflow d...
Senior Reengineering Specialist
OverviewBlack Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Reengineering Specialist to lead complex business process reengineering a...
Senior Solutions Analyst
OverviewBlack Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Solutions Analyst to lead business process assessment, workflow moderniza...