Cleared DevOps Lead

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Under general direction, finds deficiencies with our product delivery lifecycle and architecture and implement industry best practices to improve them.
• Oversees and offers input over hiring of a small DevOps team to assist the operation and maintenance of our products.
• Inspects, patches, and upgrades our existing product(s) so that they can more reliably deliver to customer environments.
• Maintains development, testing, and production environments.
• Manages continuous integration and delivery pipelines to maximize efficiency.
• Implements industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
• Develops and maintains solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
• Tests system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed.
• Manages code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
• Works with CI/CD tools, and source control (git)
• Offers technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.
• Stays current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and nine years of related experience.
• Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
• Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
• Understanding of user access practices and security controls within a system.
• Understanding of system administration in various OS environments.
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
• Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Able to work on-call hours as required.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Understanding of AWS services and cloud management.
• Experience maintaining existing production kubernetes installations.
• Experience with kubernetes configuration management systems such as helm and GitOps.
• Continuous integration processes and tools such as GitLab CI.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools.
• System monitoring and analysis.
• Familiarity with Intelligence Community and DoD mission sets.
• CompTIA Security+ certification or willingness to get certified.

Here's a peek into our tech stack. Any extensive knowledge with these is a major plus:

• Linux development environments
• Kubernetes (both RKEv2 and AWS)
• Helm
• Helmfile
• Git
• Java 17+
• Continuous integration and delivery tools (trivy, linting, testing, other static code analyzers)