Infrastructure Engineer IV

• Type: Contract
• Job #3862

Infrastructure Engineer
Aurora, CO
TS/SCI w/ Poly
Compensation Range: $130,000 - $150,000
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Responsibilities:

• Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure.
• Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across cloudbased computing environments.
• Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and other agile development teams to design and implement robust platform solutions.
• Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
• Provide operational support for the platform

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5 years of related work experience
• Experience designing, implementing, and integrating Cloud based systems on infrastructure platforms such as AWS.
• Experience with automation frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, and Chef
• Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go)
• Must meet DoD 8570 IAT level II requirements (Security + CE or equivalent)
• Active and current U.S. government TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance is required day 1. Preferred Qualifications
  
  • Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab)
  • Experience with RedHat Linux Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework
  • Experience with automation frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, and Chef
  • Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore)
  • Infrastructure experience with computers, networks, storage, and virtualization
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Google cloud
  • Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework
  • Experience with troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based Operating Systems Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration
  
  Company Benefits:
  Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.