DevOps Engineer

About the role

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) mission is to accelerate major scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs for humanity by designing and providing world-leading computing facilities in partnership with the computational science community. We help researchers solve some of the world’s largest and most complex problems with our unique combination of supercomputing resources and computational science expertise.

Responsibilities

• Perform cluster administration and application deployment assistance to users.
• Build and maintain pipelines for deploying cloud infrastructure and science services.
• Manage and use image registries such as Harbor.
• Write and update automation for resource provisioning and CI/CD pipelines – e.g. Terraform, GitOps, Python.
• Implement security controls as defined by Cybersecurity team (DevSecOps).
• Configure basic instrumentation for infrastructure and core services, to feed into monitoring and alerting systems.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for production applications.
• Define and implement KPIs, processes and drive continuous improvement.
• Diagnose platform operational problems quickly and effectively.
• Deploy, manage, and operate managed Kubernetes clusters (Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, or equivalent), including node group lifecycle management, cluster upgrades, cloud-native networking integrations (load balancer controllers, CNI plugins), and multi-environment promotion across dev, staging, and production.
• Cook up with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or closely related field and a minimum of 2+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer and/or Cloud Engineer.
• Previous experience as a team lead – able to perform task management for DevOps or Cloud Engineering teams.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Working knowledge of cloud application architecture patterns and a thorough grasp of common products and managed services for at least one Cloud Service Provider (e.g. AWS).
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes cluster administration and concepts (CR/CRDs) and application deployment strategies (GitOps, Helm).
• Working knowledge of Unix system fundamentals and common network protocols.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing networking concepts.
• Ability to proactively identify performance issues, problems, and areas for improvement.
• Ability to identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment software methodologies and strategies.
• Experience using tools such as Nagios, Grafana and Prometheus to monitor systems, metrics, and create dashboards.
• Experience with OpenTofu or Terraform in multi-account AWS environments, including AWS Organizations, SCPs, and IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts).
• Experience with ArgoCD including App of Apps patterns and ApplicationSets for multi-environment GitOps deployments.
• Familiarity with Tanka, Jsonnet, or equivalent configuration-as-code templating approaches beyond Helm.
• Experience with Kong Gateway or similar API gateway platforms in Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with secrets management patterns including AWS Secrets Manager, External Secrets Operator, or comparable Kubernetes-native solutions.
• Ability to model Argonne’s Core Values: Impact, Safety, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork.
• Exposure to high-speed research networks such as ESnet or Internet2 is a plus.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits are part of the total rewards package. Click here to view Argonne employee benefits!

Pay

The expected hiring range for this position is $69,750.00 - $108,810.00. Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, business considerations, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs.