DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI

About the role

As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration. You will 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. Location: Bethesda, MD. Must have an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging
• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements
• Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements
• Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
• 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
• Knowledgeable in navigating Linux OS
• Experienced with container/containers orchestration, specifically Kubernetes
• Skilled with CI/CD pipeline orchestration and the use of Gitlab
• Comfortable with Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana
• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with systems at scale
• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
• Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
• 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/Grafana