DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration.
• Participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross-functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, other software integrators and system administrators on the following key tasks:
• To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging.
• To enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments.
• To design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments.
• To use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
• To collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements.
• To provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team.
• To participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering, computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree.
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
• Experience and education required for this role: Comfortable working in Linux, Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc. Direct, hands-on experience with AWS EKS, Strong hands-on experience with ArgoCD, Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution.

Skills

• Experience with systems at scale.
• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques.
• Experience on a production/enterprise system.
• Experience with any of the following technologies: Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS), Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/Graphana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience, Helm and Helmfile, Nexus.

Benefits

Salary is commensurate with experience. Salary range for this requisition is: $170-$225k. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.