Platform Engineeer at Centuria – Greenbelt, Maryland

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Greenbelt, MD

Program: GSMO

Clearance: Public Trust

Company/ Program Description:

Centuria, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), has been delivering IT, Engineering, and Scientific solutions to the Federal Government since 2002. During our two decades of service we have earned the trust and respect of our government clients for the simple reason that we have great people who are experts in their fields and take pride and ownership in everything they do.

The Washington Post has recognized Centuria Corporation as one of the top workplaces in the DC Metro area for 2024. This award celebrates nationally recognized companies that make the world a better place to work together by prioritizing a people-centered culture and giving employees a voice. The Top Workplaces USA award is based entirely on feedback from an employee engagement survey completed by the employees of participating workplaces. Centuria is honored to have been awarded this distinction.

The Space Science Mission Operations group at NASA Goddard runs the ground software that keeps satellites alive and science data moving. A lot of that software is old. It's installed by hand, configured by hand, and understood by a shrinking number of people. We're moving it to Kubernetes, on-premise, and we need someone who can lead that work without losing the mission operators in the process.

Job Responsibilities:

• As a System Engineer, you will be analyzing, configuring, installing, upgrading, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, patching, compiling, securing, and repairing Linux servers in a heterogeneous environment.
• Ability to support AWS with services such as Cloud Formation Templates, S3, EC2, EKS
• Provide technical guidance and maintain operations standards.
• Participate in the validation matrix role to independently test and validate solutions to ensure fulfillment of all business requirements, compliance of regulations and quality of solutions.
• Build, deploy, manage, and maintain new and existing infrastructure systems.
• Monitor and analyze data center infrastructure resources and system applications.
• Implement and maintain backups redundancy strategies.
• Responsible for the security of the managed infrastructure systems
• Responsible for collaborating and defining policies, procedures, and technical documentation including reports, design, maintenance, operational, and support procedures.
• Responsible for the on-going development of automation strategies
• Engage with upper management and stakeholders with requirements, status reports, activity summaries, and achievements.
• Communicate with stakeholders to identify their needs and requirements.
• Use expert-level administration and optimization of hosts and servers to ensure high availability and resource management.
• Standardize and automate processes and monitoring using scripting and advance technologies offered by the data center.
• Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and clearly document the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff.
• Routinely test software for bugs, redundancies, and security issues.
• Conduct high-level root-cause analysis for service interruption and establish preventive measures.
• Create reports and documentation outlining findings and solutions; oversee the overall backup strategy and daily operations for secure backups and restore testing.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Technology, or a related field required.
• 7+ years of experience working with AWS, RHEL, Windows Servers and Active Directory (AD) required.
• Experience operating Kubernetes clusters
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Strong time-management and priority management skills
• Strong RHEL/Linux/Unix background
• Scripting experience (Shell/Perl/Python, or related language)
• Strong understanding of network protocols and principles (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
• Experience with designing/managing virtual infrastructures (VMWare/Nutanix/Hyper-V)
• Strong reasoning, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Expertise in creating, analyzing, and maintaining large-scale infrastructure deployments.
• Experience with private-cloud backup and recovery