Senior Cloud Engineering Representative

At ARA, we strive to hire valuable colleagues with not only the right skills, but who also demonstrate our core values of passion, freedom, service, and growth. As a senior cloud engineering representative, you will be our face to customer technical teams and will be responsible for developing technology critical to the success of our projects as well as national security.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary collaborative team of cloud, DevOps, hardware, software, and security engineers. You will advise and coordinate with customer teams of more than one hundred developers (and growing). You will be part of our employee-owned international research and engineering company. ARA is recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences, and you will be on this team.

     + Uses Red Hat’s Kubernetes distribution OpenShift as the foundation

     + Automates access to a suite of shared services, including software development tools

     + Automates deployment and upgrades of the environment using infrastructure and configuration as code

     + Automates compliance and security for cloud services

• You will work with customers and developers to understand and elicit requirements and build intuitive, interactive, and flexible solutions to complex problems

• You will be working closely with tech leads, developers, and DevOps engineers so a team player personality and excellent written/oral communication skills will be essential

• Due to the work you’ll perform and interactions with DoD programs you will need to be a US citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance

• BS Degree in Computer Science or related field with 8-10 years of relevant cloud experience

• Experience with AWS or Azure

• Experience deploying and administering Kubernetes

• Experience with IaC/CaC technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Salt

• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, Node/Javascript

• Relocation to Ft Worth, TX; this is an onsite position involving close collaboration with customer teams

Above all, we value passion, a desire to learn, and teamwork. We are confident that if you possess the right attitude, work ethic, and skillset that you could succeed in the role. In addition to the experience and skills above, if you have any of the following you will be able to accelerate your effectiveness and impact.

• Experience collaborating with customers and external teams

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift

• Active DoD security clearance

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with networking, especially with debugging connection issues

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company known for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. We were founded in Albuquerque, NM in 1979 as the disco era was, thankfully, closing out and the personal computer era was beginning. We employ over 1,500 professionals and continue to grow. ARA offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software, and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides ourselves on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. At ARA, employees are our greatest assets, so we give our employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take active roles as owners. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. The company realizes employee ownership spawns greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. We are also very proud of our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

To find out more about the Software Enterprise Division visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/raleigh/

• 8 - 10 years: Relevant Work Experience

• Bachelors or better in Computer Science or related field

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)