Infrastructure Engineer

Vosper Thornycroft Group; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Vosper Thornycroft Group is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure focused on AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC. You will work across data workloads, messaging systems, and monitoring to ensure robust operations.

Key responsibilities include implementing Terraform-driven provisioning, managing EKS clusters, and integrating Grafana observability with alerting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS EKS, EC2 and S3.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience with messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD.
• Experience with routing and DNS, and observability tools like Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure for high-volume workloads.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized workloads with Kubernetes.
• Design cloud infrastructure on AWS using EC2 and S3.
• Develop IaC with Terraform to automate provisioning.
• Configure routing and DNS for highly available systems.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting with Grafana.
• Collaborate with dev teams to streamline CI/CD and deployment processes.
• Apply security best practices for cloud infrastructure.
• Support large-scale, fast-paced projects.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Grafana

RabbitMQ

Kafka

DNS

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

RabbitMQ

Kafka

AWS CLI

Job description

Overview

VTG is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient infrastructure supporting high-volume data and alerting environments. This position will focus heavily on AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, messaging technologies, networking, monitoring, and automation.

What will you do?

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure supporting high-volume applications and data workloads.
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes environments utilizing AWS EKS.
• Design, configure, and optimize cloud infrastructure using AWS services including EC2 and S3.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Design and support routing and DNS solutions for highly available distributed systems.
• Deploy, configure, and support messaging technologies including RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Support systems processing high-volume data streams and alerts.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities.
• Utilize Grafana and related observability tools to monitor system health and performance.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application, networking, and cloud-related issues.
• Apply DevOps methodologies to improve infrastructure automation and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development and engineering teams to streamline CI/CD and application deployment processes.
• Implement infrastructure automation and cloud security best practices.
• Support large-scale projects operating within complex, fast-paced environments.

Do you have what it takes?

• Active TS/SCI W/ Polygraph required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS EKS and containerized application environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, including EC2 and S3.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience with messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Understanding of DevOps methodologies and practices.
• Experience with routing and DNS.
• Experience with Grafana or similar monitoring/observability technologies.
• Experience implementing and maintaining logging and alerting solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud, infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems.