3 months ago
Sioux Falls, SD, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS cloud environments.
- Support application and infrastructure migration and modernization efforts.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
- Create automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, Rust, or similar languages.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment, validation, promotion, and rollback processes.
- Support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Helm, and applicable GitOps tools.
- Apply identity, encryption, secrets, vulnerability, logging, auditing, and least-privilege security practices.
- Support FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, customer, and contract security requirements, including compliance documentation, evidence collection, remediation, and continuous monitoring.
- Maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, backups, recovery processes, and service-health checks.
- Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, Linux, networking, pipelines, containers, and application deployments, escalating complex issues when appropriate.
- Apply FinOps practices such as tagging, cost monitoring, rightsizing, scheduling, storage optimization, and identifying unused resources.
- Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, configuration records, and operating procedures.
- Participate in technical reviews, code reviews, Agile planning, incident response, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Use approved Generative AI tools for documentation, scripting, testing, troubleshooting, and automation in accordance with security and responsible-use requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- At least two years of relevant experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, systems administration, software development, infrastructure automation, cybersecurity engineering, or a related field.
- Internships, cooperative education, military technical experience, and comparable applied engineering experience may count toward the experience requirement.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and at least one Infrastructure as Code technology such as Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit, or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience with a scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, Go, or JavaScript.
- Experience with Linux administration, command-line tools, scripting, or troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Git, source-code management, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, cloud networking, identity and access management, encryption, logging, monitoring, and security practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot technical problems, document findings, escalate complex issues, collaborate effectively, and communicate in writing and verbally.
- Ability and willingness to learn new AWS services, DevOps tools, security controls, and automation technologies.
- U.S. citizenship is required, along with the ability to satisfy applicable customer, facility-access, background-investigation, and contract eligibility requirements.
- Must hold an approved active AWS associate certification at hire or obtain one within six months: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate, AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, or AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate.
- Preferred experience includes GitLab, GitLab Runners, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST Special Publication 800-53, observability, vulnerability management, incident response, backup and recovery, FinOps, and approved Generative AI tools.
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.
- KBR supports career advancement through professional training and development.
- The role provides hands-on experience with modern cloud technologies and mentoring from experienced engineers, architects, cybersecurity professionals, and application teams.
- Employment is contingent upon citizenship verification and applicable background-investigation, facility-access, and contract eligibility requirements; the candidate must obtain and maintain a national agency check and background investigation after hiring.
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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.