Swoop Search

Cloud Systems Engineer

Swoop Search

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Minneapolis-St. Paul • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSCloudFirewallsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformVMware

About the role

  • You will work with the existing infrastructure and deployment team to automate, scale and test deployments of Swoop Technologies’ products.
  • Deployments may include secure, airgapped, on prem, remote, bare metal and cloud environments.
  • Currently, deployments are closely tied to a gitlab CI/CD infrastructure.
  • Day to day tasks will include spinning up and down AWS resources to support code development and testing, refining Terraform provisioning scripts, monitoring and building out profiling metrics, and securing overall cloud presence.
  • Building out automation around monitoring of cloud resource health and usage
  • Working with security engineers to ensure NIST, STIG compliance of cloud applications
  • Automation of cloud resource provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
  • Streamlining the process by which developers deploy, run and test code in cloud environments
  • Enabling appropriate cloud and orchestration scaling mechanisms to ensure ideal balance of performance and resource use efficiency
  • Support code and resource updates of client installations
  • Work with client engineers to monitor and fine tune their resources

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
  • 3+ yrs in cloud provisioning and management
  • Understanding of basic software security standards, CI/CD configuration, and buildout (i.e. configuring gitlab.yaml files)
  • Code containerization (reading and editing Dockerfiles); Container orchestration (Kubernetes); Provisioning (Terraform); Cloud Deployments (AWS); Resource monitoring (Promethius)
  • Linux, CentOS, Windows knowledge
  • Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
  • Bonus if you have: AWS Certifications
  • Experience working in AWS gov cloud
  • Competent in networking and virtualization (firewalls, IP tables, virtual environments, containerization, VMWare, application ingress, etc).
Benefits
  • Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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Hard skills
cloud provisioningcloud managementTerraformAnsibleAWSPythonBash scriptingDockerKubernetesresource monitoring
Certifications
AWS Certifications