3 months ago
Sioux Falls, SD, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, secure, maintain, and operate AWS cloud environments for mission-critical workloads.
- Assess and modernize applications and infrastructure through migration, rehosting, replatforming, containerization, and cloud-native services.
- Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and deployment patterns using Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
- Build infrastructure and operational automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Design, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, including build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment, validation, promotion, and rollback processes.
- Design and support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Helm, and GitOps tools.
- Implement cloud security controls for identity and access management, encryption, secrets, networking, vulnerability management, logging, auditing, and least-privilege access.
- Support compliance and security activities for FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, and customer requirements.
- Develop monitoring, alerting, dashboards, health checks, runbooks, and incident-response procedures.
- Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, Linux, networking, pipeline, container, and application deployment issues.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, backup and recovery, resilience, and disaster-recovery activities.
- Apply FinOps practices to improve tagging, cost allocation, rightsizing, scheduling, storage use, anomaly detection, and cloud efficiency.
- Create technical designs, architecture diagrams, configuration records, implementation plans, engineering standards, and operating procedures.
- Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to associate and less-experienced engineers.
- Use approved generative AI tools for infrastructure development, pipeline engineering, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and automation while following security 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 six years of relevant professional experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, systems administration, software development, infrastructure automation, cybersecurity engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating AWS environments supporting production, regulated, security-sensitive, or mission-critical workloads.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable Infrastructure as Code technology.
- Experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, Go, JavaScript, or another scripting or programming language.
- Experience with Linux administration, Git, source-code management workflows, CI/CD platforms, automated testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment automation, environment promotion, or rollback.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Helm, or comparable container technologies.
- Working knowledge of AWS networking, identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and cloud security.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST Special Publication 800-53, or a comparable security framework.
- Experience with monitoring, incident response, operational runbooks, backup and recovery, or disaster-recovery practices.
- Familiarity with cloud cost management, resource tagging, rightsizing, or FinOps principles.
- Ability to independently resolve complex technical issues, document findings, recommend corrective actions, review technical work, and guide less-experienced engineers.
- Strong written, verbal, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- U.S. citizenship is required, along with the ability to satisfy customer, facility-access, background-investigation, and contract eligibility requirements.
- Must hold an active AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, or AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate certification at the time of hire.
- Candidates without a qualifying Professional-level AWS certification at hire must obtain one within 12 months of starting.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, additional AWS Professional or Specialty certifications, public-sector AWS experience, GitLab Runner administration, reusable platform services, enterprise integrations, advanced FinOps, and customer-facing technical communication.
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 support are offered.
- U.S. citizenship, background-investigation requirements, and government facility badge eligibility apply as practical employment conditions.
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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.