RQ188991 - DevOps Engineer, Sr.

Springfield, VA - Salary Range 170-186k (TC/SCI Poly Required)

Job Brief

We are looking for highly energetic, TS-SCI cleared, IT professionals who are interested in joining our seasoned team of technologists. We are focused on driving significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise-wide IT operations and performing routine O&M for an IC agency. The program itself supports a broad range of IT enterprise services for end-users around the globe, with smaller project teams that focus on particular areas (i.e. Platform as a Service, Application Services, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, API Management, etc.). We are looking for hands-on professionals, team players, and engaged individuals who enjoy keeping up with the latest tech stacks and technology trends. We have positions open at all levels and in multiple geographies.

Basic Qualifications:

• TS/SCI clearance w/ CI poly
• You must meet one of the below combinations of education and RELEVANT experience to be considered:

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
• 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
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations
• Maintain status of operations at all times
• Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
• Manage operational readiness board and present at weekly meetings
• Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Align to customer's strategies
• Utilize the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
• Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest
• On-call support may be required

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in a related field
• 3+ years of related systems programming experience
• Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces
• Experience working with container images and platforms
• 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
• 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
• Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Desired Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes-based environment using GitLab and Helm
• Understanding of access management and security groups
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

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