DevOps Engineer, Sr

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a DevOps Engineer, Sr on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities

Automates and optimizes service deployments

Integrates with enterprise authentication services

Establishes and Improves system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.

Architects, builds and maintains on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives

Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)

Administers production, staging and development environments

Manages and aggregates server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents

Monitors and analyzes system performance, such as server load and resource usage

Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools

Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation

Enforces best practices for security and reliability, and drives security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing

Works with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems

Maintains up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks

Maintains status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking

Creates and determines required metrics for dashboards and service health

Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

Manages operational readiness board – presents at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability

Tracks and ensures routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner

Aligns to the customer's strategies

Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline

Works with other service providers to support areas of common interest

On-call support may be required

Qualifications

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Degree and Years of Experience: 8+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

3+ years of related systems programming experience

Required Skills:

Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)

Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)

Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes

Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes

Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices

Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting

Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised

Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure

Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis

Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm

Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)

Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

Desired Skills:

Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm

Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)

Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

About Abile Group, Inc.

Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients. We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise.

EEO Statement

Abile Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.

Please review our current job openings and apply for the positions you believe may be a fit. If you are not an immediate fit, we will also keep your resume in our database for future opportunities.

Regular Full-Time