Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area in Livermore, California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a component of the U.S. Department of Energy's N

Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Location

California

Posted

33 days ago

Salary

$146.3K - $222.6K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree

Job Description

Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Title: Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer Location: Livermore, CA United States Hybrid Full time Reference #: REF8298Y Job Code: SES.2 Science & Engineering MTS 2 / SES.3 Science & Engineering MTS 3 Organization: Computing Position Type: Career Indefinite Security Clearance: Anticipated DOE Q clearance (requires U.S. citizenship and a federal background investigation) Drug Test: Required for external applicant(s) selected for this position (includes testing for use of marijuana) Medical Exam: Not applicable Job Description: Company Description Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact. Job Description We have an opening for a Cloud and Application Infrastructure Systems Engineer. You will architect, implement, and administer the cloud and application infrastructure required to support enterprise applications across the Laboratory's business services and programmatic missions. This position is in the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Division in the Computing Directorate, supporting the LivIT Program. This position offers a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You will have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. This position will be filled at either the SES.2 or SES.3 level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level. You will - Architect and implement highly available application infrastructures required to support enterprise IT service delivery. - Leverage systems programming expertise to automate and manage service orchestration, monitoring, configuration management, security, and patch management of application infrastructures and services. - Collaborate with customers, IT managers, developers, team members, systems administrators, database administrators, and security administrators to jointly develop highly available application infrastructures & services that meet business & programmatic needs. - Manage systems architecture throughout their systems development lifecycles, including risk analysis, capacity planning, highly available systems architecture and design, development, quality assurance, documentation, standards enforcement, implementations and upgrades, security compliance & vulnerability remediation, and performance monitoring. - Operationally support application infrastructure technologies (For Example: Java Play, Oracle WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, load balancers, API gateways, or DockerEE/AWS EKS), and various enterprise commercial off the shelf (COTs) stacks. - Provide superior problem remediation support within the application tier environments in support of negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLA's). - Support the transition of our existing virtualized application infrastructures into containerized services to help drive configuration standardization & agility, CI/CD automation & orchestration, and security enhancement objectives. - Perform other duties as assigned. Additional job responsibilities at the SES.3 Level - Provide solutions to complex problems that require in-depth analysis of tangible and intangible factors and the creative use of established and/or innovative methods in architecting and designing application infrastructures and services. - Leverage advanced subject matter expertise in one or more application infrastructure engineering areas to support the development of advanced application architectures. - Leverage advanced subject matter expertise in systems programming, automation, and orchestration tooling to automate the creation, configuration, and management of complex systems. Qualifications - Ability to obtain and maintain a US DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience. - Broad experience in implementing and managing application and cloud service infrastructure; including monitoring, operational support, security, and lifecycle management. - Experience with systems programming and/or automation tools to create, configure, monitor, and automate the management of application infrastructures required to maintain the requisite availability and security posture of deployed services. - Broad experience collaborating with customers, IT managers, developers, database administrators, systems administrators, and security administrators to jointly create application infrastructure services that meet business requirements. - Experience with public and/or private cloud services, and UNIX and/or Windows O/S administration, security, and performance tuning. - Experience managing application infrastructure technologies, such as Java Play, Oracle WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, load balancers, API gateways, DockerEE/AWS EKS, or various enterprise commercial off the shelf (COTs) stacks. - Proficient communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills necessary to effectively present, explain, and advise senior management and/or external sponsors. - Perform other duties as assigned. Additional Qualifications at the SES.3 Level - Advanced experience with systems programming to create, configure, monitor, and automate the management of complex application infrastructures required to maintain the requisite availability and security posture of deployed infrastructures and associated services. - Significant experience architecting and managing application and cloud service infrastructures; including implementation, monitoring, operational support, security, and lifecycle management. - Advanced experience in enterprise observability and alerting, including designing and implementing golden-signal dashboards (latency, traffic, errors, saturation), establishing SLO/SLA-based alerting strategies with mature on-call readiness and documented runbooks, and integrating centralized log management platforms (e.g., Datadog Logs or Splunk) to correlate logs with metrics and distributed traces for rapid incident detection, triage, and resolution. - Advanced experience in infrastructure monitoring and automation, delivering monitoring across Kubernetes/EKS, VMs, load balancers, and web/app servers, and automating monitors, dashboards, and configuration via Ansible and APIs. Qualifications We Desire - Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Management Information Systems. - Experience leveraging Splunk or equivalent SIEM environment to operationally manage application infrastructure services. - Experience working in a compliance-driven and secure environment, as well as project management experience with large, enterprise COTs application implementations. Pay Range $146,340 - $185,544 Yearly at the SES.2 level $175,530 - $222,564 Yearly at the SES.3 level This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. Additional Information #LI-Hybrid Position Information This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates. Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory? - Included in 2026 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor! - Flexible Benefits Package - 401(k) - Relocation Assistance - Education Reimbursement Program - Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs) Security Clearance This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship. Pre-Employment Drug Test External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor. Wireless and Medical Devices Per the Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory must meet certain restrictions with the use and/or possession of mobile devices in Limited Areas. Depending on your job duties, you may be required to work in a Limited Area where you are not permitted to have a personal and/or laboratory mobile device in your possession. This includes, but not limited to cell phones, tablets, fitness devices, wireless headphones, and other Bluetooth/wireless enabled devices. If you use a medical device, which pairs with a mobile device, you must still follow the rules concerning the mobile device in individual sections within Limited Areas. Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities require separate approval. Hearing aids without wireless capabilities or wireless that has been disabled are allowed in Limited Areas, Secure Space and Transit/Buffer Space within buildings. How to identify fake job advertisements Please be aware of recruitment scams where people or entities are misusing the name of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to post fake job advertisements. LLNL never extends an offer without a personal interview and will never charge a fee for joining our company. All current job openings are displayed on the Career Page under "Find Your Job" of our website. If you have encountered a job posting or have been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond. Equal Employment Opportunity We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to providing all with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status, age, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. California Privacy Notice The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants privacy rights to all California residents. The law also entitles job applicants, employees, and non-employee workers to be notified of what personal information LLNL collects and for what purpose. The Employee Privacy Notice can be accessed here.

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