Senior Cloud Systems Administrator — Multi-Cloud & IaC Expert

Black Canyon Consulting; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401k plan with employer contribution

Paid holidays

Vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Administrator to support NCBI in Bethesda, MD. You will design, automate, and manage production multi-cloud environments across AWS and GCP, focusing on reliability and security in a federally regulated context.

We value deep Unix/Linux expertise, IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes proficiency, and strong scripting in Python and Bash as you collaborate with a team of senior cloud professionals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise Unix/Linux systems administration experience.
• 3+ years of production workloads in AWS or GCP.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Git.
• Kubernetes in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Puppet for configuration management.
• Experience with high-throughput web services and performance tuning.
• Strong Python and Bash scripting.
• Ability to work independently and with senior cloud admins.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, manage, and optimize multi-cloud environments across AWS and GCP.
• Implement IaC with Terraform; maintain modular infrastructure code.
• Design and maintain VPCs, networking, security groups, and interconnects.
• Monitor and alert with CloudWatch/CloudTrail and GCP Operations.
• Provide proactive support for incidents and performance tuning.

Skills

Unix/Linux administration

Terraform

Kubernetes

Puppet

Python

Bash

AWS/GCP

Networking concepts

Security best practices

Git

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Puppet

Git

AWS

GCP

Linux tooling

Job description

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Administrator to support NCBI in Bethesda, MD. You will design, automate, and manage production multi-cloud environments across AWS and GCP, focusing on reliability and security in a federally regulated context.

We value deep Unix/Linux expertise, IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes proficiency, and strong scripting in Python and Bash as you collaborate with a team of senior cloud professionals.