Cloud System Engineer, Secret Clearance

Blue Sky Innovators; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Sky Innovators in Arlington, Virginia is looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance our cloud application infrastructure while maintaining CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in cloud platforms, DevOps tools, and scripting languages.

This role demands a minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, with veteran status or security clearance being essential. Join us as we continue to innovate and enhance our technology stack.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, and DevOps processes.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining applications and infrastructure.
• Knowledge of scripting languages for automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud application infrastructure.
• Improve existing infrastructure through automation.
• Collaborate with teams for continuous delivery.

Skills

DevOps tooling and techniques

CI/CD tools

Cloud platforms administration

Automation and process design

Scripting languages

Container technologies

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, test, and maintain our cloud application/runtime infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to internal operations projects, such as the introduction of new technology stacks.
• Spearhead improvement and/or maintenance initiatives regarding existing infrastructure.
• Partner with development teams, clients and vendors on various tasks to enable continuous delivery, such as building microservices, and responding to and resolving incidents as they arise.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement via automation as a key member of our DevOps team.

Technical Experience

• Must come from a technical background with strong experience in DevOps tooling and techniques.
• Previous knowledge of building and optimizing deployment pipelines and deployment strategies on popular CI/CD tools.
• Strong experience designing, securing, scaling and administering cloud platforms.
• Solid understanding and experience of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Serverless computing.
• Previous experience using scripting and coding languages.
• Ability to drive efficiencies through automation and process design and implementation of application deployment methodologies.
• Experience deploying, securing and upgrading a growing list of applications and services; provide routine automation; maintain security policies; troubleshoot and offer technical support for project related work.
• Ability to contribute to existing documentation such as knowledge base, wiki, manuals, etc.
• Build process for multiple releases.
• Design and configure continuous integration build systems.
• Participate in deployment and configuration of the applications.
• Set up code review process and tooling for continuous integration.

Additional Skills / Requirements

• Programming Languages:
  • C, C#, C++, Java, JS(ES6+), Python, Ruby, Perl, Rust, Go
• Systems Administrator Experience
• CI/CD Tools
• Infrastructure as Code
• Container Technologies:
  • Docker/Kubernetes (must have)
  • Docker‑Compose, LXC, Openshift, AWS EKS, GKE, Docker Swarm
• Kubernetes Certification is a plus.
• Web Technologies
• Web Servers
• L4 and L7 Load Balancer Experience
• Bash Scripting Experience
• Splunk, ELK, Graylog
• Monitoring
• Experience with Firewalls (NAT, ACL, Port Forwarding)
• Hashicorp Toolstack: Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, Nomad
• Good understanding of IP Network stack up to CCENT level.
• An active Secret or Top‑Secret Security Clearance.

Education

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree required (in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or related field.)

Equal Opportunity and Disability Statement

Blue Sky Innovators, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a qualified job seeker with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the website. To request an accommodation, please email [e-mail].