Cloud Systems Engineer II - Kubernetes, IaC & Security

Black Eagle Defense; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 124,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Eagle Defense is seeking a Cloud System Administrator II to support cloud systems and related infrastructure at Fort Meade. The role includes monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining cloud services while ensuring Secure the Enterprise/Secure the Net requirements.

You will work on PKI, VPN-enabled networks, and open-source tools, writing automation scripts in Perl, Python, or Ruby to streamline operations and deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four years of additional related experience.
• Hands-on Linux administration and command-line skills.
• Experience with containerized workloads and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operations support for cloud systems and infrastructure.
• Monitor and troubleshoot systems; resolve Tier 1 and 2 issues.
• Configure cloud environments and patch/security hardening tasks.
• Develop automation scripts using Perl, Python, or Ruby.

Skills

Linux administration

SSH remote access

System health monitoring

Container management

Docker

Kubernetes

Traefik

HDFS

Big data concepts

Network security basics

Patching and hardening

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm charts

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Traefik

Job description

Black Eagle Defense is seeking a Cloud System Administrator II to support cloud systems and related infrastructure at Fort Meade. The role includes monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining cloud services while ensuring Secure the Enterprise/Secure the Net requirements.

You will work on PKI, VPN-enabled networks, and open-source tools, writing automation scripts in Perl, Python, or Ruby to streamline operations and deployments.