Senior Linux and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Education

Required Skills and knowledge

• At least 10 years of overall systems, cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, or related engineering experience.
• At least 5 years of substantial recent hands-on AWS infrastructure engineering or administration experience in production environments.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancing, DNS/Route 53, and application request routing.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience administering EC2 environments, including deployment, monitoring, patching, troubleshooting, backup/recovery, and operational automation.
• Strong practical knowledge of AWS IAM, including roles, trust policies, permission policies, instance profiles, resource access, and least-privilege design.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Systems Manager for fleet administration, patching, automation, or compliance management.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation in production environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience. Oracle Linux 8 and Ubuntu experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, TLS/HTTPS, and cloud/on-premise network integration.
• Strong Bash, Python, Ansible, or comparable infrastructure automation skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills.

Desired Skills and Knowledge

• Experience administering AWS Organizations or other multi-account AWS environments, including delegated administration and centralized governance.
• Experience designing scalable and highly available AWS architectures using load balancing, horizontal scaling, Auto Scaling, caching, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Experience supporting hybrid environments integrating AWS with on-premise Linux systems and enterprise networks.
• Experience supporting NASA, DoD, or other federal government computing environments.
• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 controls, security benchmarks, vulnerability management, and security audit requirements.
• AWS professional- or specialty-level certification. Certification is valued as supporting evidence but is not a substitute for demonstrated hands-on experience.
• Experience with research computing, simulation, scientific computing, or software-development infrastructure.
• Experience administering Windows Server or VMware environments.

LOCATION SPECIFIC REQUIRMENTS

• NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA
• SECURITY CLEARANCE: Applicant must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government Public Trust Clearance. Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.
• EEOE Including Vets and Disability