Senior Cloud Administrator
Bethesda, MDOnsite
Summary
Manages and supports Microsoft Azure cloud environment for NCBI, including Linux systems administration, resource management, automation scripting, and troubleshooting for developers and production services.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Provide support to developers and production services operating in NLM's Microsoft Azure environment.
- Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture.
- Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies.
- Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services.
- Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.
- Experience managing Cloud resources within Microsoft Azure, particularly:
- User management
- Roles and permissions
- Compute instances
- VPCs and subnets
- Routing
- Firewall rules/security groups
- Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks
- Self-starter, able to work independently
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
- Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)
- Ability to manage firewall rules
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (Bourne/bash shell, Ruby, Python, Perl)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience managing cloud systems, including Amazon AWS and Google GCP.
- Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.
- Experience with MS Windows systems administration
- Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
- Experience managing resources with Puppet
- Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their native CLI or API
- Experience with cloud automation tools (Packer, Terraform, cloud-init)
- Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk, Telegraf, InfluxDB.
- Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
- Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)
- Experience with Git
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, Ruby, Python, Perl
Skills
Microsoft AzureLinuxCentOSRedHatBashPythonRubyPerlAWSGoogle CloudTerraformPackerDockerKubernetesGit