DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support an IC customer/contract in Springfield, VA. This position requires a TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph.

In this role you will design and define the DevOps architecture for new or existing IT systems. You'll coordinate system development to include design, modeling, security, integration, and formal testing.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Automate and optimize service deployments

Integrate with enterprise authentication services

Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.

Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives

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

Administer production, staging and development environments

Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents

Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage

Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools

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

Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.

Required Skills and Experience:

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

Experience working with container 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

Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure

Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis

Education/Experience:

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

5+ years IT experience

Desired Certifications:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator

Advanced Security certification