R&D Cloud Engineer — Distributed Systems & Security

University of Texas

United States

On-site

USD 104,000 - 174,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for an R&D Cloud Engineering Scientist at the Applied Research Laboratories. The role centers on designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed cloud systems to support science, research, and engineering applications.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and at least three years in cloud engineering, with IaC, containerization, and security proficiency.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer or information science, or other applied sciences.
Three years of experience in cloud engineering.
Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
Experience with containerization and container orchestration.
Knowledge of networking concepts.
Familiarity with CI/CD tools and practices.
Understanding of distributed systems principles.
Experience designing for scalability, high availability, security, and fault tolerance.
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD 8140 compliant security certification within six months of employment.
Applicant must be highly organized, have excellent attention to detail, and possess sound scientific judgment.

Responsibilities

Contribute to cloud architecture solutions for applications across multiple environments.
Design scalable, highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Define networking, compute, storage, and security requirements and patterns.
Make architectural tradeoffs to manage cloud costs.
Evaluate and recommend cloud services.
Create and maintain architecture diagrams and design documentation.
Implement infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
Deploy and configure cloud resources including compute, storage, networking, and databases.
Set up multi-region and multi-availability zone deployments.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes.
Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and cost.
Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions.
Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
Support management of lifecycle of cloud costs.
Optimize resource utilization and cloud costs.
Support efforts to implement identity and access management best practices.
Define network security configuration.
Ensure data encryption at rest and in transit, compliance audits, and conduct periodic security reviews.
Partner with development teams to support application requirements.
Create and maintain runbooks, documentation, and operational procedures.
Provide guidance and mentorship on cloud best practices.