Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values individuals, talents, partnerships, ideas, experiences, and different perspectives, recognizing their importance to the continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range

$140,700 - $178,392 Annually for the SES.2 level
$168,780 - $214,032 Annually for the SES.3 level

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage.  An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

We're looking for a Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer. You will architect, implement, and administer the cloud and application infrastructure required to support enterprise applications across the Laboratory’s business services and programmatic missions. This position is in the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division in the Computing Directorate, supporting the LivIT Program.

This position will be filled at either the SES.2 or SES.3 level based upon knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

This position offers a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.

You will

• Architect and implement highly available application infrastructures required to support enterprise IT service delivery.
• Leverage systems programming expertise to automate and manage service orchestration, monitoring, configuration management, security, and patch management of application infrastructures and services.
• Collaborate with customers, IT managers, developers, team members, systems administrators, database administrators, and security administrators to jointly develop highly available application infrastructures & services that meet business & programmatic needs.
• Manage systems architecture throughout their systems development lifecycles, including risk analysis, capacity planning, highly available systems architecture and design, development, quality assurance, documentation, standards enforcement, implementations and upgrades, security compliance & vulnerability remediation, and performance monitoring.
• Operationally support application infrastructure technologies (For Example: Java Play, Oracle WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, load balancers, API gateways, or DockerEE/AWS EKS), and various enterprise commercial off the shelf (COTs) stacks.
• Provide superior problem remediation support within the application tier environments in support of negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).
• Support the transition of our existing virtualized application infrastructures into containerized services to help drive configuration standardization & agility, CI/CD automation & orchestration, and security enhancement objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the SES.3 level 

• Provide solutions to complex problems that require in-depth analysis of tangible and intangible factors and the creative use of established and/or innovative methods in architecting and designing application infrastructures and services.
• Leverage advanced subject matter expertise in one or more application infrastructure engineering areas to support the development of advanced application architectures.
• Leverage advanced subject matter expertise in systems programming, automation, and orchestration tooling to automate the creation, configuration, and management of complex systems.

Qualifications

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Broad experience in implementing and managing application and cloud service infrastructure; including monitoring, operational support, security, and lifecycle management.
• Expe