SkyGrid, a Boeing Company, exists to open the sky for autonomous flight. Based in Austin, Texas, SkyGrid builds ground based high-assurance third-party services to enable the safe operations and airspace integration of highly automated and autonomous aircraft. SkyGrid also acts as a key operational nexus for advanced air mobility, integrating and managing data, infrastructure, access, and traffic to support seamless and efficient air traffic services.
SkyGrid is seeking a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer with Automation experience to support our IT infrastructure team. This role will focus on the deployment and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, cloud-based applications within AWS, and solutions with limited on-premise environments. This person will play a key role in building out and defining the AWS environment with some focus on Azure configurations, supporting the backbone of our infrastructure, and adopting industry best-practices to ensure operational efficiency, security, and compliance.
Performance Objectives:
- Adopt a least-privilege approach to AWS IAM by removing unnecessary access from existing users and roles. Account monitoring and ongoing review.
- Audit and perform remediation for non-compliant resources based on NIST, ISO, and SOC2 frameworks.
- Support upcoming simulation activities with the FAA and our partners.
- Build and lead a CCoE (Cloud Center of Excellence), primarily focused on aligning our teams with existing cybersecurity frameworks and practices.
- Streamline our Pulumi IaC by adopting a function-based approach to deployments.
- Help deploy and maintain our corporate and program Disaster Recovery Plan.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with IT, DevOps, and Engineering teams to architect, provision, and maintain corporate and program solutions.
- Manage our cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), configure and optimize CI/CD pipelines, and automate provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi, CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Manage, audit, and harden/secure cloud and on-premise resources.
- Support simulations for validation of aerospace autonomy functions.
- Work in an Agile/Scrum environment, document workflows, and handle controlled information (CUI/ITAR).
Qualifications:
- 5-10 years of IT/DevOps engineering experience, with a strong focus on security.
- AWS certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi, CloudFormation, Terraform) in Production environments.
- Experience with common AWS services (VPC, Route53, EC2, EKS, etc.).
- Experience with the OSI model.
- Work experience in IT, DevOps, and/or Cybersecurity.
- Experience in automation scripting using Python and Bash.
- Experience with cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible Automation Platform, Puppet, Chef, Salt).
- Experience supporting DevOps landscape (automated testing, deployment, and version control systems)
- Experience with Kubernetes (Packaging, Deployment, Security, Governance, Scalability, etc.) using managed Kubernetes services (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift/ROSA).
- Proficient navigating Linux servers, applications, and various networking protocols.
- Proficient using logging tools (Splunk, Kibana, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications:
- B.S. degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Red Hat certifications: RHCSA, RHCE, RHCOA, RHCSC.
- Other certifications: CCSP, Security+, CCNA/Network+.
- Experience configuring and managing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
- Experience using and securing GitLab code repositories and CI pipelines.
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure with Pulumi (preferred) or Terraform.
- Experience with Debian, RHEL 8/9, and Windows (2019+) servers and containers.
- Experience with security standards and frameworks, such as NIST SP 800-123, 800-171, 800-53, RMF, SOC2, ISO, FedRAMP, etc.
- Experience with RTCA standards (DO-178C, DO-355A, etc.).
- Implementing new standards and protocols using CAB meetings.
- Documentation Creation.
