Cloud Systems Engineer
Swoop Technologies9 days ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Automate, scale, test, and support deployments across secure, air-gapped, on-premises, remote, bare-metal, and cloud environments.
- Provision and manage AWS resources using Terraform and Ansible.
- Build monitoring automation for cloud resource health and usage and develop profiling metrics.
- Streamline developer processes for deploying, running, and testing code in cloud environments.
- Configure cloud and orchestration scaling mechanisms to balance performance and resource efficiency.
- Support code and resource updates for client installations and help client engineers monitor and fine-tune resources.
- Work with security engineers on NIST and STIG compliance for cloud applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in cloud provisioning and management.
- Understanding of software security standards, CI/CD configuration, and GitLab YAML configuration.
- Experience with Dockerfiles, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and Prometheus resource monitoring.
- Knowledge of Linux, CentOS, and Windows.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
- Active US security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US security clearance.
- AWS certifications, AWS GovCloud experience, networking and virtualization knowledge, QA automation, and SonarQube experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid position requiring residence in the Minneapolis/St. Paul or Washington, DC area and in-office work at least 3 days per week.
- Equal opportunity employer.
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About Swoop Technologies
Swoop Technologies builds SwoopOS, a secure distributed operating system for coordinating equipment and data across militaries and critical infrastructure. Its platform includes the Valhalla SDK for deploying autonomous and distributed systems and the Surf browser for operations, targeting defense, energy, communications, and manufacturing operators at the digital edge. The privately held company sells enterprise software and tooling for edge orchestration and data utilization, rather than cloud-only solutions.