Bridgephase - San Antonio, TX
posted 5 months ago
BridgePhase is a software engineering company focused on designing, building, securing, and operating cutting-edge software solutions that drive mission success and operational excellence for Federal Government organizations. We are dedicated to supporting the Air Force's commitment to technological superiority by providing innovative software engineering services that enhance operational efficiency, security, and agility. We strive to be a trusted partner in advancing the Air Force's mission of maintaining global readiness and dominance through superior software capabilities. We are currently seeking a motivated AWS System and Operations Administrator to join our team supporting the U.S. Air Force Unified Platform Software Factory. Based in San Antonio, the Unified Platform consists of a diverse group of industry experts that leverage agile methodologies and state-of-the-art DevSecOps practices to deliver rapid, impactful solutions to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Cyber Command. In this role, you'll perform platform operations, sustainment engineering, and systems administration while continuously improving functionality, monitoring, and resource optimization. The ideal candidate will be proficient in cloud-based resources (particularly AWS), troubleshooting, and implementing access control policies. You'll also support automation efforts, implement DevSecOps practices, and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Strong documentation skills and the ability to propose process improvements are essential. In this position, you can expect to: - Improve system, platform, and applications operations and functionality, monitoring, and optimization of resources. - Conduct continuous monitoring activities as required. - Continually seek to improve components functionality, security, etc., and proactively make recommendations in that regard. - Support cybersecurity taskers, initiatives, activities, and/or actions as required. - Support maintenance of the accreditations to include performing routine STIGing of system components, POA&M remediation, etc. - Execute and maintain appropriate configuration management activities and best practices to ensure accountability and documentation of system resources. - Minimize downtime during peak hours and upgrades and installs planned to occur outside of the peak times the mission users need to access the environments. - Configure, deploy, improve and administer cloud-based resources and cloud native resources, specifically AWS. - Diagnose and troubleshoot issues related to the operating system(s), infrastructure, platform, network components and software, as they arise. - Administer access control and identity and access management policies and best practices to ensure the security and integrity of the system, platforms and its components. - Document and propose improvements to business processes workflows. - Support efforts to automate application deployment that leverages container technology through cloud-based environment through tools such as GitLab, and other CI/CD tools and technologies. - Build, operate, and maintain technologies and processes that enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), and other DevSecOps best practices. - Administer application/software version upgrades, patches, remediate and fix vulnerabilities or other issues as they arise. - Operate and maintain the platform and pipelines clusters, user access permissions, and ensure the security and integrity of data transfer between the clusters. - Integrate DevSecOps tools and services to enable an automated pipeline that supports customer applications throughout their SDLC. As with any technical environment, the exact role responsibilities will evolve with the changing needs of our client. We are looking for versatile engineers who thrive on new challenges and can readily adapt to additional responsibilities beyond those listed above.