What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Systems Administrator (Remote) position at Brown Technologies inc.?
Cloud Systems Administrator
Remote in Eastern or Central Standard Time Zones
Brown Technologies is a rapidly growing company with a proven record of success supporting complex cutting-edge development programs. We are an employee-centric company that understands the individuals that comprise our workforce are our most important asset and are recognized as one of "The Best Places for Working Parents" in Huntsville, AL. Come join our team of experienced, dedicated, and committed professionals whose focus is to solve the mission-critical problems of our customers.
Brown Technologies Incorporated is currently seeking a full-time Cloud Systems Administrator to support a large federal customer. This role will work with project stakeholders to facilitate new and existing projects taking advantage of cloud and automation technologies in support of the program mission and serve as primary information technology POC for multiple projects. This position is full time remote but restricted to candidates living in central or eastern time zones. Candidate should expect travel up to 4 weeks per year with the bulk of travel to Vicksburg, MS or Champaign, IL.
Responsibilities include:
- Setup, maintain, and automate computing resources across cloud and on premises infrastructure
- Provide configuration and management of one or more Azure Cloud environments
- Provide architecture and integration support for hybrid (On-prem/Cloud) projects
- Work with cybersecurity professionals to implement and maintain security configurations supporting Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements such as DOD STIG
- Supporting DOD customer project work including a testbed of digital twin of installations, helping respond to threats before they occur, enhancing resilience and adapting and utilizing facilities to be more flexible in response to changing missions
- Support and maintain automated builds and deployments for applications
- Provision cloud resources for customer projects and assist with build out
Required Skills and Experience:
- Clearance required: U.S. Citizenship is required and possession of or ability to obtain US government secret clearance
- 4 Year degree from an accredited college or university with relevant coursework (equivalent experience may be substituted for this requirement)
- 5 years' experience of Infrastructure Operations-centric role
- 3 years of experience in cloud platform administrations (AWS or Azure)
- Strong experience with Azure services, including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, and Azure Active Directory
- Experience with Azure automation and scripting tools
- Diverse operating systems knowledge for systems administration (Microsoft Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Ability to design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or other CI/CD tools
- Manage and maintain containerized applications using Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or other container orchestration platforms
- Experience with software project management and issue tracking tools such as JIRA, Gitlab, and Confluence
- Experience with current DevOps tools and methodologies
- Ability to clearly document and diagram technical systems
- Coding/Scripting experience
- Must have strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- The ability to communicate effectively with other technologists and business stakeholders
- Possession of or ability to obtain CompTia Security or CISSP certification (within the first 6 months of employment)
Desired Qualifications:
- Active Secret clearance
- Experience securing applications relative to DoD STIG
- Experience with smartcard or other 2 factor authentication models
- Experience with Azure Repos, Pipelines and Artifacts