Cloud Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)

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.

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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of using innovative technologies to explore solutions? Do you want to join a dynamic team that solves significant issues for our nation’s security? Then join Sandia National Laboratories as a Cloud Engineer (Software Systems Engineer)!

We are seeking a highly motivated technical professional to join our team that leads the way in developing, implementing, and enhancing cloud computing systems to meet mission needs. We process terabytes of near real time data daily, extracting information and providing it to national decision makers. The department currently provides a core technical competency for the Decision Support Systems (DSS) business area and enables program execution in the Advanced Systems Program Office (ASPO) business area.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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

• Design, develop, and implement cloud-based solutions for effective operation of mission enabling information systems

• Support and develop DevOps activities

• Participate in development and support in areas including cloud computing, container technologies, data and computing virtualization, and secure cloud architectures

• 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

Qualifications We Require:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field; OR

• Associate's Degree and four years of relevant experience;

• A HS Diploma and eight years of relevant experience

Other Required Qualifications

• Experience in cloud technologies and software design\engineering\development

• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q and SCI security clearances

Qualifications We Desire:

• Ability to acquire an IA certification (Security+, CISSP, CISA)

• Familiarity with AWS

• Experience with software engineering standard methodologies

• Experience with Linux and MS-Windows operating systems

• Experience with automation, orchestration, continuous integration, and continuous delivery including tools such as puppet, ansible, docker, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.

• Experience designing and developing data flow/transfer systems

• Knowledge of computer networking fundamentals (e.g., network devices, ports/protocols, addressing, routing, network access, identity, and access management, and authentication)

• Knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies

• Experience with object-oriented design and development with languages such as C++ or Java.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify creative solutions

• Ability to function in a dynamic, fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team

• Ability to prioritize, manage, and complete multiple projects within appropriate scope and timeframe

• Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.

• Active DOE Q or DOD equivalent and SCI clearances

About Our Team:

Within Center 6300 and as part of the Decision Support Systems Group, the Systems Design and Architecture Department 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 real-time processing and exploitation from a variety of very ambitious, sophisticated data streams from pathfinder remote sensing assets.

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 vacations, 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.

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.

Salary Range:

$75,900 - $146,200

*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.

Job ID: 688501