4040 Devops Engineer

OVERVIEW:

We have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a DevOps Engineer, Mid 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.

GENERAL DUTIES:

• 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.
• Builds, tests, and maintains custom Helm Charts using Gitlab and ArgoCD.
• Builds, tests, and maintains custom OpenShift Operators.
• Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to create complex ci-templates and custom runners.
• Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain Container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
• Creates FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images.
• Maintains up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Creates and determines required metrics for dashboards and service health.
• Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ 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 Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift.
• 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms.
• 3+ years of experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images.
• 3+ years of experience using Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from Gitlab.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes.
• Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds.
• Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed.
• 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.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk.
• Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or API's.
• Go programming language experience.

CLEARANCE:

• TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly minimum