Black Canyon Consulting

Cloud Engineer

Bethesda, MD

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Role family: Engineering
Seniority: Mid level
Country: US
Work mode: On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly: 10 Sept 2026

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Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Cloud Engineer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD.

The Cloud engineer's role is to assist with the operation and continuing development of its cloud services environment based in both Google GCP and Amazon AWS. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with an environment that is constantly changing and can work closely with developers and operations managers responsible for stable production services.

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Responsibilities

Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI's Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments

Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture

Participate in evaluation and implementation of new technologies

Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services

Assist with development of tools to help monitor and manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.

Required Qualifications

Strong experience with Linux systems administration, particularly CentOS 7 or RedHat 7.

Experience managing Cloud resources within Amazon AWS or Google's Cloud Platform, particularly:

User management

Roles and permissions

Compute instances

VPCs and subnets

Routing

Firewall rules/security groups

Experience writing scripts to automate management tasks

Self-starter, able to work independently

Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing environment

Familiarity with networking concepts (subnetting, basic routing, UDP, TCP, ICMP)

Ability to manage firewall rules

Strong troubleshooting skills

Some programming experience, applicable to developing cloud management tools (one or more of Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl)

Desired Qualifications

Familiarity with managing continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or GitLab.

Experience with MS Windows systems administration

Experience with Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services

Experience managing resources with puppet

Experience writing code to automate management of cloud resources via their native CLI or API

Experience with cloud automation tools (packer, terraform, cloud-init)

Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as nagios, splunk, telegraf, influxdb.

Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.

Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket)

Experience with git

Experience with container technologies (docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

Experience programming in Bourne/bash shell, ruby, python, perl

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