Job Description:

If you want to accelerate your career growth and are passionate about applying your expertise to solve problems of national importance then we have the job you are looking for! You will be able to achieve your personal and professional goals in a stable environment that emphasizes and rewards the entrepreneurial spirit.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary collaborative team of cloud, DevOps, hardware, software, and security engineers. You will advise and coordinate between customers and a team of 50 developers (and growing). You will be part of our employee-owned international research and engineering company. ARA is recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences, and you will be on this team.

• You will design and implement an architecture that:
  
  
  
  • Uses Red Hat’s Kubernetes distribution OpenShift as the foundation
  
  
  • Automates access to a suite of shared services, including software development tools.
  
  
  
  
  • Automates deployment and upgrades of the environment using infrastructure and configuration as code
  
  
  • Automates compliance on restrictions to cloud services
  
  


• You will work with customers and developers to understand and elicit requirements and build intuitive, interactive, and flexible solutions to complex problems


• You will be working closely with tech leads, developers, and DevOps engineers so a team player personality and excellent written/oral communication skills will be essential

Senior Cloud Engineer Requirements for the position are as follows:

• U.S. Citizen with eligibility to apply for and hold a U.S. security clearance (selected applicants will undergo a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements at the time of employment)


• 7 – 9 years of relevant cloud experience with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, IT, or a related field OR 5-7 years of relevant experience with Master’s


• Experience with AWS or Azure


• Experience deploying and administering Kubernetes


• Experience with IaC/CAC technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Salt


• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, Node/Javascript

Senior Cloud Engineer Preferences:

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift or Rancher


• Active DoD security clearance


• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines


• Experience with networking, especially with debugging connection issues

About Us:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company known for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. We were founded in Albuquerque, NM in 1979 as the disco era was, thankfully, closing out and the personal computer era was beginning. We employ over 1,500 professionals and continue to grow. ARA offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides ourselves on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. At ARA, employees are our greatest assets, so we give our employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take active roles as owners. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. The company realizes employee ownership spawns greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. We are also very proud of our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

To find out more about Southeast Division visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/raleigh/

Experience

Required

• 7 - 9 years: Relevant Work Experience

Education

Required

• Bachelors or better in Computer Science or related field

Preferred

• Masters or better in Computer Science or related field

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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