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David Careers

R&D Cloud Engineering Scientist

Posted 6 days ago

university of texas at austin staffAustin (TX)
Computer Systems Engineers/ArchitectsComputer Systems Design Services

SENIORITY

Lead

SALARY

$104,000 per year

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About the role

R&D Cloud Engineering Scientist Hiring Department: Applied Research Laboratories Position Open To: All Applicants Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSAEarliest Start Date: Immediately Position Duration: Expected to Continue
Location: PICKLE RESEARCH CAMPUSPurposeThe position will design, implement, deploy, and maintain distributed systems and cloud infrastructure which includes contributing to cloud architecture definition and performing design and implementation within established architecture patterns. This position leverages cloud-native services and best practices to build scalable, highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant infrastructure that supports science, research, and engineering applications.
Responsibilities: Infrastructure Design & Architecture: Contribute to cloud architecture solutions for applications across multiple environments. Design scalable, highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. Define networking, compute, storage, and security requirements and patterns. Make architectural tradeoffs to manage cloud costs. Evaluate and recommend cloud services. Create and maintain architecture diagrams and design documentation. Implementation & Deployment: Implement infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code. Deploy and configure cloud resources including compute, storage, networking, and databases. Set up multi-region and multi-availability zone deployments. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes. Operations & Reliability: Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and cost. Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions. Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Support management of lifecycle of cloud costs. Optimize resource utilization and cloud costs. Security & Compliance: Support efforts to implement identity and access management best practices, define network security configuration, ensure data encryption at rest and in transit, compliance audits, and conduct periodic security reviews. Collaboration & Documentation: Partner with development teams to support application requirements. Create and maintain runbooks, documentation, and operational procedures. Provide guidance and mentorship on cloud best practices. Other related functions as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer or information science, or other applied sciences.
  • Three years of experience in cloud engineering
  • Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code methodologies
  • Experience with containerization and container orchestration
  • Knowledge of networking concepts
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools and practices
  • Understanding of distributed systems principles
  • Experience designing for scalability, high availability, security, and fault tolerance
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD 8140 compliant security certification within six months of employment.
Applicant must be highly organized, have excellent attention to detail, and possess sound scientific judgment. The position will require effective management of their own time with the ability to plan, coordinate, and execute multiple tasks simultaneously. Regular and punctual attendance in the workplace is required. US Citizen. Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information at the level appropriate to the project requirements of the position.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining applications in AWSExperience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Cloud
  • FormationExperience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, or ECSExperience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, or JenkinsAWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or Developer
  • Knowledge of monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or Prometheus
  • Experience with database services such as RDS, Aurora, or DynamoDBFamiliarity with serverless architectures
DoD 8140 compliant security certification (e.g., Security+)Salary Range$104,000-$174,000+/negotiable depending on qualifications.
Working Conditions:
  • Standard office conditions
  • Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
  • Use of manual dexterity
  • Some weekend, evening and holiday work
  • Possible interstate/intrastate travel
  • Required Materials
  • Resume/CV3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
  • Letter of interest
  • Unofficial college transcripts

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