Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) is building a pipeline of Cloud and Systems Operations Engineers for anticipated government contract opportunities; these are not current job openings and any future positions depend on contract award and program requirements. The role would operate, sustain, optimize, and improve enterprise technology environments, with possible specialization in infrastructure/systems operations or cloud cost optimization and FinOps.
Responsibilities
- Administer and sustain operating systems, servers, middleware, cloud resources, and supporting infrastructure
- Monitor system health, availability, capacity, performance, and resource consumption
- Perform configuration management, patching, upgrades, backup, and recovery activities
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, operating system, middleware, and cloud-service issues
- Implement automation that reduces routine operational and maintenance effort
- Support monitoring, observability, alerting, and proactive incident prevention
- Analyze cloud consumption, utilization, capacity, allocation, and cost trends
- Identify infrastructure and cloud optimization opportunities
- Support business continuity, resilience, and disaster-recovery capabilities
- Collaborate with development, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and application-support teams
Skills
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 5+ years of systems administration, cloud operations, infrastructure operations, FinOps, or related experience
- Experience with Windows and/or Linux enterprise environments
- Experience supporting production systems and infrastructure
- Knowledge of monitoring, patching, configuration management, backup/recovery, or capacity management
- AWS or Microsoft Azure experience
- Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation
- Docker/Kubernetes or container-platform experience
- Cloud cost management, tagging, allocation, forecasting, or FinOps experience
- Observability and AIOps technologies
- FinOps Foundation certification or major cloud certifications
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, pet, and legal insurance
- 401(k) retirement matching
- Paid leave
- Paid holidays
- Health and wellness programs
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Professional development
- Education benefits
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