Advanced DevOps Engineer

Role and Position Objectives

Work closely with our team to plan major updates and enhancements to our products. In this role, you will be working with critical internal and external platform consumers. Together with the team, you will support successful implementation of the platform in the Cloud through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to automation that instantiates and maintains container orchestration platforms
• Automatically configure and deploy infrastructure services consisting of identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, deployment and more
• Support production-grade applications in virtualized environments (cloud computing platforms and services) using automation
• Create or use of pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, and/or Terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from resource creation to service configuration
• Effective communication and attention to detail

Requirements

• Demonstrated familiarity and experience in some of the following areas: Experience working with or familiarity with AI/ML models is preferred. Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Experience working with, or are familiar with the differences between, public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments
• Container technologies such as Docker, or Kubernetes
• Deployment or use of continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience supporting production-grade applications in virtualized environments (cloud computing platforms and services) using automation
• Creation or use of pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, and/or Terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from resource creation to service configuration
• Effective communication and attention to detail

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field.
• Also requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience.
• Agile experience preferred.

Skills

• Strong understanding of software development process, as well as software engineering concepts, principles, and theories
• Creative thinker capable of applying new information quickly to solve challenging problems
• Team player who thrives in collaborative environments and revels in team success
• Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others
• Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation

Benefits

• An exciting career path with opportunities for continuous learning and development
• Research oriented work, alongside award winning teams developing practical solutions for our nation’s security
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work, if desired (9/80 schedule)
• Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, flex time off, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more