Sr DevOps Engineer

***Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and CI Polygraph

Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) is hiring a motivated Sr DevOps/Linux Systems Engineer to support a cutting-edge modeling and analytics framework in support of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). On this program you will have the opportunity to work with technical leaders in cloud computing and data analytics to re-architect, modernize, and operationalize a critical tool leveraged across the IC to make real-time, mission-critical decisions. Candidates must have an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and CI Polygraph.

Candidates must be self-motivated who can understand technical concepts and collaborate on technical direction on a small team in an agile environment.

Responsibilities:

Hands-on engineering, operations, and maintenance of scalable IT infrastructure

Administration of Linux servers in a hybrid on-premise and cloud environment; experience with AWS is highly desired

Working with DevOps processes and toolsets to support software teams in dev, test, and production environments

Working both independently with little supervision as well as in a team environment.

Coordinating with Information System Security Officers to ensure all standards and best practices are implemented in system architecture

Assisting external customers with development and troubleshooting of IT and software systems

Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible

Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management

Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs

Qualifications :

5+ years’ Linux system administrator experience with AWS building and managing highly-available, fault-tolerant systems (i.e. EC2, VPC, ELB, IAM, Autoscaling)

Experience working on Linux based infrastructure

Expertise with Kubernetes containerization and clustering in production

Experience implementing CI/CD

Configuration and managing databases such as Postgres, Mongo

Experience with server configuration management or infrastructure automation tools (i.e. Ansible, Puppet)

Scripting experience (i.e. Bash/shell, Python)

Excellent troubleshooting skills

Knowledge of Agile development processes

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

CompTIA Security+, or IAT II certification

EEO Disclaimer

SBS is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender, gender identification, sex, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, parental status, citizenship status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws.