Cloud Engineer, Sr - HRC0015445

Support NASA missions The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is a multi-mission science and flight operations center for NASA's flagship observatories on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland. The Data Management Division at the STScI is hiring a Principal Astronomical Data Scientist, to help advance our data analysis tools for our NASA flagship missions primarily in areas of data visualization. STScI is the science operations center for several NASA missions. This position can support hybrid work onsite and at home. Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to our local market. (MD, DE, VA, PA, DC & WV). This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Residence in order to meet ITAR requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Optimize a scalable, reliable, and secure AWS native cloud system
• Refine infrastructure configuration as IaC using Terraform
• Help produce and capture operational metrics from logs, API's, and various cloud sources
• Refine CI/CD/CT pipelines to build, deploy, and test native cloud application code

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field with a minimum of 8 years working experience in an AWS Cloud environment required for a senior level position.

You're a creative, highly motivated, engaged and driven Cloud Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to advance state-of-the-art data management services. You can work across teams and organizations to develop a shared purpose, vision, and strategy for moving our missions forward. You have experience designing and securing applications by incorporating cloud architecture best practices, infrastructure as code, and automation to deploy high-quality services in an AWS cloud environment. You thrive in an environment that offers you significant freedom to develop novel solutions but you also have a proven commitment to excellence. You may have experience with data processing workflows/pipelines, data archives, and working with cloud data storage management.

• Expertise in cloud-native application development, and cloud infrastructure management.
• Expertise in containerization and Kubernetes
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services (EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3)
• Strong experience of workflow managers (Airflow)
• Strong experience with AWS and proficiency in Python, BASH, and IaC tools like Terraform
• Strong experience with relational and cloud-based databases
• Strong experience in building automation tools and CI/CD/CT pipelines using platforms like Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and CodePipeline