About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing innovative technologies to explore solutions? Do you want to join a dynamic team that solves significant issues for our nation’s security?

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Cloud Engineer with experience in system administration, DevOps, cloud, and/or software engineering. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining solutions that leverage cloud technologies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, propose innovative cloud-based approaches, and implement scalable and reliable solutions. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in computer science principles, excellent problem-solving skills, and hands-on experience with cloud technologies.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Develop software in a variety of programming languages.
• Administrate and maintain cloud infrastructure including our CI/CD pipeline.
• Support and develop AWS based environments as a subject-matter expert including standard methodology guidance for developing near real-time solutions in cloud environments.
• Work collaboratively with architects, developers, product owners, customers, and end users to collect requirements, design solutions and deliver high quality, easy to use groundbreaking infrastructure.
• Participate in research and development areas including cloud computing, container technologies, data and computing virtualization, and secure cloud architectures.
• Enable successful ground segment transition to the cloud environment.
• Use excellent interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with a diverse set of colleagues across multiple teams.
• Work with diverse technology stacks, using strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and testing skills.
• Team with other technical specialists working on Agile teams.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$99,400 - $193,600

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require:

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.

Qualifications We Desire:

The ideal R&D Computer Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or a highly related field with extensive programming experience.
• Active DOE Q or DOD TS security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain an SCI.
• Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices and tools (e.g., Agile).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and a passion to improve and expand technical skills.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Cloud technologies, system administration, software engineering, and/or DevOps experience
• IA certification (Security+, CISSP, CISA).
• Programming languages including Python, C/C++, Bash scripting.
• Automating configuration management using Ansible, Terraform.
• Full stack web development using tools like Python Flask, Javascript, MySQL
• Linux. RHEL experience is a plus.
• Git, GitLab, GitLab CI, Nexus.
• AWS and various AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS.
• Other cloud infrastructure platforms and services including technologies such as OpenStack, Azure.

About Our Team:

Within Systems Mission Engineering Center (6300) and as part of the Decision Support Systems Group, the Systems Design and Architecture Department (6327) designs and develops high-performance cloud-based and hybrid solutions used for high-consequence missions with national security impact. Our full-stack team crafts and implements environments, infrastructures, software, and algorithms, that enable and perform real-time processing and exploitation from a variety of very ambitious, sophisticated data streams from pathfinder remote sensing assets.

Decision Support Systems develops first-of-a-kind tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems for critical national security missions. We design, develop, and deploy large networked computing systems that push the state-of-the-art in data processing throughput and real-time action and response. We develop sophisticated algorithms and software for detecting, monitoring, and classifying targets of interest. We fundamentally develop and improve the way sensing systems customers make decisions.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by the DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 695435

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F