812115 Systems Engineer $225,000.00
About the role
As an Infrastructure Engineer in this role, you will be responsible for architecting and maintaining scalable, resilient systems that support high-volume data alerting within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You will leverage your expertise in Kubernetes to orchestrate containerized workloads, ensuring seamless deployment and management of applications. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include optimizing cloud infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as EKS, EC2, and S3, and implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform to automate provisioning and configuration. You will also be tasked with designing robust routing and DNS solutions to guarantee high availability and performance across distributed systems.
Success in this position will be driven by your hands-on experience with messaging platforms like RabbitMQ and Kafka, which are essential for handling large-scale data streams and ensuring reliable communication between services. You will benefit from familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, as well as logging and alerting frameworks that enable proactive incident response. Exposure to DevOps methodologies will be crucial, as you will collaborate closely with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and enhance operational efficiency. Your ability to troubleshoot complex issues and implement best practices in cloud security and automation will set you apart in this challenging and rewarding role.
Requirements
- Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with a Polygraph
Qualifications
- Expert level (11–15 years' experience)
- Kubernetes
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- DevOps
- EKS
- AWS EC2
- S3
- Terraform
- Routing
- DNS
- Grafana
- Logging
- Alerting
Skills
- Experience with scalable applications on Kubernetes
- Experience handling high volume data alerts
- Experience working on large projects in complex, fast-paced environments
Pay
Up to $225,000.00 per year
Schedule
Core hours: 9am to 4pm
Benefits
- Retirement: Full Vanguard 401k Plan with 100% employer match up to 6% of salary; ability to max out 401k savings up to $57k ($63.5k if over 50); annual B4Corp phantom stock grants (2-year vesting period)
- Medical: United Health Care (UHC) with multiple plan options
- Dental: United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
- Vision: Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
- Short-term disability: Mutual of Omaha (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
- Long-term disability: Mutual of Omaha (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
- Life insurance: Mutual of Omaha ($200,000.00)
- Paid Time Off: Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
- Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)
- Employee Referral Bonus: $3,000 per year for every year the referred person works for B4Corp