Devops Engineer

About Beacon Systems, Inc

Beacon Systems, Inc, delivers Program Management, Science, Engineering, and Technology Solutions to Federal, Commercial, State, and Local Agencies. We are a subsidiary of Radiant Digital Solutions. Our Technology support to many DoD Agencies, NASA, Voice of America, FDA, and State Agencies such as State of FL, RI, MS, ND, VA, and WV extends our delivery of solutions worldwide.

Position: Devops Engineer

Duration: 12 Months plus

Location: Hybrid - Dallas, TX (3 Days onsite & 2 Days remote a week)

Job Description:

Are you passionate about C#? Jubilant about Jenkins? Animated about Ansible? Thrilled by Terraform? Would you like to work with cutting edge Platform Technology on a hybrid private cloud? Keen to abstract and improve User Journey with automation and APIs? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role, your key responsibilities will be:

Helping to shape and engineer the correct tooling and automation capabilities to enable consumption of our private cloud platform

Defining automation standards, frameworks and reporting

Driving the adoption of Event Based Automation.

Working with Infrastructure-as-Code principles, to enable the company to expand its private cloud capabilities

Designing and implementing Jenkins pipelines to perform infrastructure automation tasks

Defining, configuring and deploying Jenkins pipelines from code using Jenkins DSL

Using Ansible for orchestration development, and managing our existing codebase:

Infrastructure tooling to create the glue

Defining new workflows to be consumed via self-service

Developing and managing Go and Python libraries

Enhancing and expanding our Terraform Enterprise platform through:

Modular developments of reusable infrastructure components

Maintaining and expanding a catalogue of reusable infrastructure services

Providing Terraform users with best practises for creating their Terraform code.

Essential experience

Deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Experience automating platform operations

Writing Python and/or Go for automation

Using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, TeamCity)

Writing and managing Ansible Playbooks

Working with GitHub Enterprise or similar VCS

Experience creating reliable pipelines utilizing ELK/OTel for metrics, logs, and traces

Applying IaC concepts for configuration management & immutable infrastructure

Desirable skills

Deploying services on Kubernetes

Writing HCL (Terraform) code & creating Ansible modules/collections

Automating checks within CI/CD pipelines

Deploying and managing immutable infrastructure

Compensation

Compensation for roles at Beacon Systems Inc depending on a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

Full Time, Contract