Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & Automation (Herndon)

Energy Jobline ZR; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

NS2 Mission in Herndon, Virginia is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud environments that support data-intensive workloads and distributed applications.

Join a collaborative team, work with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Grafana to improve reliability, security, and performance. This on-site role requires TS/SCI readiness and a commitment to best-practice operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Professional experience supporting infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production or enterprise environments.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS, including services such as EKS, EC2, and S3.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable tools.
• Understanding of routing, DNS, and networking concepts within distributed environments.
• Experience supporting messaging or streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ and/or Kafka.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
• Understanding of modern DevOps methodologies and automated deployment practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to resolve complex infrastructure and operational issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and resilient infrastructure supporting high-volume data and application workloads.
• Manage containerized environments using Kubernetes, including deployment, configuration, scaling, and operational support.
• Build and optimize AWS infrastructure utilizing services such as EKS, EC2, and S3.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Develop and maintain reliable routing and DNS solutions to support distributed applications and high availability.
• Configure and support messaging and event-streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities using tools such as Grafana to improve system visibility and operational awareness.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to support CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and continuous operational improvements.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, and application issues and drive issues through resolution.
• Apply cloud security and infrastructure best practices to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and ongoing platform optimization.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Networking

Observability

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/related

Tools

Grafana

RabbitMQ

Kafka

EKS

EC2

S3

Job description

NS2 Mission in Herndon, Virginia is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud environments that support data-intensive workloads and distributed applications.

Join a collaborative team, work with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Grafana to improve reliability, security, and performance. This on-site role requires TS/SCI readiness and a commitment to best-practice operations.