# Cloud Systems Engineer

Cloud Systems Engineer Cloud Systems Engineer SUMMARY: Our Cloud Operation team is expanding! We are seeking a multi-stack cloud professional to help us grow and maintain our public cloud environments. We are a tight-knit, customer-focused, and highly collaborative engineering team that emphasizes knowledge sharing, skill development, and technical excellence. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Support new and existing VMware, KVM, and ProxMox virtualization environments underpinning multiple public clouds Support new and existing Cloudstack and vCloud Director environments in multi-tenant public clouds Develop and improve process and workflows leveraging DevOps and Automation best practices in an Ansible and Git environment Install, manage and maintain backup and DR infrastructure across Veeam and Zerto Monitor and optimize system performance and health across all supported systems Troubleshoot and resolve Tier 2 escalations across all supported systems Install, patch or upgrade, troubleshoot, and repair FirstLight owned systems as required Create and maintain high-quality systems documentation as required and/or appropriate. Perform special projects and other duties as assig

- **Id**: 3977292
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/firstlight-cloud-systems-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Albany, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:34:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T18:34:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3998
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Telecommunications, Enterprise Networks

## Company

- **Id**: 179441
- **Name**: FirstLight
- **Domain**: firstlight.net
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/firstlight-2>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: ADP

## Salary

- **Min**: 80000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 100000

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Proxmox VE** — Optional: no
- **Red Hat** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T18:34:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T19:12:09Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 100000
- **Is top pay**: no

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