Senior Cloud Administrator
Laurel, MD

Job Description

Bridges is expanding, and we are seeking Senior Cloud Administrators for multiple positions to support Department of Defense Analytic Modernization efforts. You will be a vital player on the AMALGAM team to provide technical experience, innovative approaches, communication skills, priority management, and integrity in developing systems solutions.

Why Join Bridges?

* We have a small company feel with big company opportunities.
* We solve the Nation's most difficult intelligence challenges by delivering trusted cyber security and shaping big data into confident decisions.
* In today's cyber battleground, our team of elite experts makes Bridges an industry pacesetter and agile innovator that delivers success as a trusted partner.
* Our employees are like family. We focus on maintaining our culture and values of commitment, integrity, respect, and courage.
* We take care of our family with benefits and compensation packages worth bragging about.
* We believe in developing our people, so we pay for your certifications in addition to an annual training stipend. We have a training initiative for ongoing Azure and AWS certifications, and we develop individual, custom training plans.
* Most important, we have fun!

Responsibilities:

* Work in a dynamic and operational environment supporting the Cloud based repositories used by thousands of Intelligence Community users.
* Be comfortable working in a high tempo mission environment where requirements change on a daily basis due to operational and world events.
* Utilitize strong systems administration, PUPPET, LINUX, and Cloud experience

Requirements

* *ACTIVE TS/SCI with POLYGRAPH CLEARANCE*
* At least three (3) years of experience managing and monitoring large Hadoop clusters (>200 nodes)
* At least three (3) years of experience writing software scripts using scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby for software automation.
* At least three (3) years of experience in the planning, design, development, implementation and technical support of multi-platform, multi-system networks, including those composed of CISCO and UNIX or LINUX-based hardware platforms, to encompass diagnosing network performance shortcomings and designing and implementing performance improvements..
* Demonstrated the ability to work with OpenSource (NoSQL) products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs such as Hbase, CloudBase/Acumulo, Big Table, etc.
* Demonstrated work experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
* Hadoop/Cloud Developer Certification or comparable Cloud System/Service Certification. Six (6) months experience administering or implementing Cloud technology will be accepted as substitution for certification.

Desired Additional Experience (for preferential consideration):

* Highly - Education: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field is highly desired which will be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience. A Master's Degree in a technical field will be considered equivalent to four (4) years of experience. NOTE: A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, Program Management, or similar degree will be considered as a technical field. NOTE: Psychological evaluation/examination may be required to perform the roles of this position.
* At least three (3) years of experience managing and monitoring large Hadoop/Cloud clusters (>1000 nodes)
* Technical experience and knowledge of peer-to-peer distributed storage networks, peer-to-peer routing and application messaging frameworks
* Demonstrated knowledge of analytical needs and requirements, query syntax, data flows, and traffic manipulation
* Significant experience provisioning and sustaining network infrastructures and have experience developing, operations, and managing networks required to operate in a secure PKI, IPSEC, or VPN enabled environment

Benefits

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