2 months ago
Sioux Falls, SD, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Lead migration and modernization of legacy applications and infrastructure to AWS.
- Design, deploy, secure, and operate AWS environments for development, test, staging, and production workloads.
- Build reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, templates, guardrails, and deployment patterns.
- Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, monitoring, auditing, patching, and deprovisioning.
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines covering builds, tests, security scanning, artifact management, deployments, validation, promotions, and rollbacks.
- Support Docker and Kubernetes containerized workloads, including Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Helm, and GitOps practices.
- Establish identity, secrets, encryption, logging, auditing, vulnerability management, change control, and least-privilege guardrails.
- Support FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST-based controls, compliance evidence collection, remediation tracking, and continuous compliance.
- Build monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, health checks, and incident response procedures.
- Improve reliability through autoscaling, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, fault isolation, resilience engineering, and SLO/SLA support.
- Apply FinOps practices including tagging, cost allocation, rightsizing, scheduling, storage optimization, savings planning, anomaly detection, and cost dashboards.
- Use approved Generative AI tools and automation agents to improve documentation, pipelines, runbooks, testing, and incident response.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and document technical designs, standards, procedures, and customer recommendations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, DevOps engineering, platform engineering, systems administration, infrastructure automation, enterprise architecture, or related technical roles.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience implementing DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automation, containerization, and infrastructure operations.
- Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating production workloads in AWS.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, configuration management, automation, CI/CD pipelines, Linux administration, scripting, containers, cloud security, networking, IAM, logging, monitoring, and governance.
- Experience operating in regulated, compliance-driven, or security-sensitive environments and working with FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST-based controls, or comparable frameworks.
- Experience applying FinOps practices and troubleshooting complex infrastructure, pipeline, networking, systems, and application deployment issues.
- Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across architecture, cybersecurity, development, infrastructure, operations, and customer teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting designs and presenting recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience using approved Generative AI tools or automation agents for engineering or operational workflows.
- Must meet one certification requirement: hold an active AWS Professional-level certification at hire, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or obtain one within six months of hire.
- Preferred qualifications include an AWS Specialty certification, HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification, GitLab Runner administration, GitOps, observability, disaster recovery, hybrid-cloud, service mesh, WAF, advanced Kubernetes, legacy modernization, and public-sector cloud experience.
- A master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
Benefits
- Benefits may include a 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability coverage, paid time off, and a flexible work schedule.
- Professional training, development, and career advancement opportunities are available.
- KBR is an equal opportunity employer and supports a People First, Zero Harm culture.
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About KBR, Inc.
KBR, Inc. delivers engineering, technology, and professional services to government and industrial customers, spanning defense, space, sustainability, and energy. Its businesses include long-term government mission support and program management, and Sustainable Technology Solutions that license process technologies and provide consulting and operations support across asset lifecycles. Headquartered in Houston and listed on the NYSE, KBR became an independent public company in 2006 after its separation from Halliburton.