Senior Cloud Administrator

Black Canyon Consulting; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Paid holidays

Vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) seeks a Senior Cloud Administrator to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. The role focuses on operating and expanding Azure cloud services, collaborating with developers and operations managers for stable production systems.

The ideal candidate has strong Linux administration experience, Azure expertise, and scripting skills to automate tasks.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux systems administration (CentOS/RHEL).
• Experience managing Azure resources (users, roles, compute, VPCs/subnets).
• Ability to write scripts to automate tasks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and independence.
• Adaptable to rapidly changing environments.
• Familiarity with networking concepts.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to developers and production services in the NLM Azure environment.
• Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture.
• Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies.
• Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services.
• Assist with development of tools to monitor and manage cloud environments and enforce policies.

Skills

Linux admin

CentOS 7

Red Hat 7

Azure

User management

Roles & permissions

Compute instances

VPCs/subnets

Routing

Firewall rules

Automation scripts

Bourne shell

Python

Ruby

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Puppet

Tools

TeamCity

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Cloud Administrator to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD.

The Cloud Engineer's role isto assist with the operation and continuing development of its Azure cloud services environment. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with an environment that is constantly changing and can work closely with developers and operations managers responsible for stable production services.

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to developers and production services operating in NLM''s Microsoft Azure environment.
• Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture.
• Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies.
• Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services.
• Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
• Experience managing Cloud resources within Microsoft Azure, particularly:
  
  • User management
  • Roles and permissions
  • Compute instances
  • VPCs and subnets
• Routing
• Firewall rules/security groups
• Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks
• Self-starter, able to work independently
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)
• Ability to manage firewall rules
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl)

Desired Qualifications

• Experience managing cloud systems, including Amazon AWS and Google GCP.
• Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Experience with MS Windows systems administration
• Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
• Experience managing resources with puppet
• Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their native CLI or API
• Experience with cloud automation tools (packer, terraform, cloud-init)
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as nagios, splunk, telegraf, influxdb.
• Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket)
• Experience with git
• Experience with container technologies (docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl