Cherokee FederalRemote
Platform Application Engineer
United States
Full Time
1 day ago
$125,000 - $130,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
AWSTerraform/OpenTofuContainerization managementConfiguration management toolsSQL databasesAtlassian suiteCentralized loggingMonitoring toolsTroubleshooting skillsCollaboration skillsSQLAnalyticsTerraformKubernetesDockerAnsibleECSHelmBambooPodmanCloudWatchPostgreSQLMySQLDatadogNew RelicSplunkBitbucketAtlassianJiraConfluenceCollaboration
About this role
Cherokee Federal is a division of tribally owned federal contracting companies focused on serving the government’s mission. They are seeking a mission-focused Platform Application Engineer to support their government customer by performing system administration tasks, monitoring system performance, and automating application deployments.
Responsibilities:
- Performing system administration tasks (For example: user management, security configuration, and general maintenance)
- Monitoring system performance, identifying and resolving issues to ensure high availability
- Automating the provisioning and configuration of containerized applications, ensuring consistent and efficient deployments
- Vulnerability management via proactive and appropriately prioritized configuration updates and application upgrades
- Linux scripting and running command line functions
- Collaborating with teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and document procedures
- Web application deployments using reverse proxies, Apache Tomcat applications, and MYSQL/PostgreSQL databases
Requirements:
- U.S. citizenship documentation required
- 2+ years of experience with deploying, managing, monitoring, and upgrading resources in AWS
- Experience using Terraform/OpenTofu for Infrastructure as Code
- Demonstrable containerization management experience (Kubernetes/Helm/Docker/ECS/Podman)
- Experience using configuration management tools such as Salt or Ansible
- Demonstrable troubleshooting skills
- Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Atlassian suite system administration (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Crowd)
- Experience using centralized logging such as Splunk and CloudWatch
- Experience using/administering artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Nexus
- Experience using monitoring and performance analytics tools such as Datadog or New Relic
- Experience in managing SQL databases (Example: PostgreSQL, MYSQL)