DevOps Engineer 4 [D.26.0088]

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $230k-$251k per year with an additional $57k-$63k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Description

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.

• Duties:
  • Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
  • Patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL.
  • Installing, configuring, and providing performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.
  • Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
  • Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).

Communication and collaboration

DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
• 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree
• Current Security+CE certificate

Desired Skills

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime.
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.