DevOps Engineer 4 [D.26.0088]

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $230k-$251k per year with an additional $57k-$63k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Description: Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.

Duties:

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
• Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
• The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
• 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
• Current Security+CE certificate.

Desired skills (2 of the below):

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate