Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team located in Multiple Locations.

This position can be located at Ridley Park, PA, Plano, TX, Seattle, WA, and Hazelwood, MO.

This team is tasked with transforming the way BDS data is sourced, managed, and utilized to unlock insights to drive business growth and optimization. The team supports data needs for internal stakeholders, across BDS business programs and functions, and is tasked with utilizing data to inform and improve the full lifecycle of BDS products.

In this role, you will be a thought leader in how to design, implement, manage, and scale data pipelines in support of the BDS Data Analytics Platform leveraging modern cloud architecture design, hybrid cloud technologies, data migration technologies, and others. You will be responsible for crafting data pipelines and deploying them in a cloud infrastructure.

This role requires a resourceful, self-driven, outcome-oriented individual with meticulous attention to detail and the ability to partner, execute, and communicate skillfully, while solving complex problems in dynamic environments. The ideal candidate will have experience with large scale data platforms, cloud computing, hybrid clouds, software development, and requirements management. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. And experience working in cross-functional teams and leading technical projects is required.

Position Responsibilities:

Level 4:

• Participates in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment.
• Design and develop cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services that meet the organization's requirements. This includes selecting the appropriate cloud platform, creating architecture diagrams, and developing automation scripts.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Proficiency in cloud services and tools (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda for AWS; VMs, Lake Formation).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• Deploy new applications to the cloud and migrate existing applications from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud while ensuring the migration process is seamless without disruption to the organization's operations.
• Monitor the performance of cloud-based systems, optimize resources to ensure cost-effectiveness and high availability, troubleshoot and resolve any issues that may arise within the cloud-based infrastructure.
• Implement security measures such as encryption and access controls with regular audits of the cloud environment to ensure compliance.
• Manages progress to plan, risks, and opportunities with team members, program leadership, stakeholders, and customers
• Works closely and collaborates with partner and enterprise technical organizations

Level 5:

• Conducts original research and development (R&D) of advanced computing technologies. Contributes to the research strategy for the organization.
• Identifies, assesses and ensures successful deployment of emerging computing technology.
• Performs comparative analysis, cost-benefit analysis and trade studies to evaluate and recommend technology.
• Determines expertise needed for customer solutions and leads the consulting team.
• Develops and reviews R&D proposals.
• Forecasts computational needs and capabilities.
• Influences program decision makers to use appropriate computational tools and processes.

This position is hybrid. The selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options. This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Information Systems or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in cloud computing and infrastructure management
• 3+ years of experience moving applications to Docker and Kubernetes or managing applications in Docker and K