DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI W Poly- Herndon/ Chantilly, Va

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Chief Engineer and other engineers to integrate DevOps best practices and automation for improved program performance and reduced risk.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code to control all aspects of software environments and version-controlled releases.
• Containerize Java and Python code, optimizing for deployment in a Kubernetes environment to ensure high availability and parallel processing.
• Leverage AWS best practices to reduce compute costs while incorporating autoscaling and scheduling resources based on program demand.
• Work closely with development teams throughout the software development lifecycle to design software with the production environment in mind.
• Automate and version control deployments, ensuring a controlled process that enables zero downtime.
• Incorporate security scanning and other best practices to ensure new deployments comply with industry standards.
• Partner with the ISSE to implement security tools within the build pipeline.
• Document work in alignment with Agile Development practices.

Required Skills

• Minimum of 4-7 years demonstrated experience with:
• Active TS/SCI w/Polygraph security clearance is required.
• Kubernetes and Helm Charts
• Docker and/or Podman Containerization best practices
• AWS Services (EKS, Lambdas, EMR, ECR, VPC, etc.)
• Terraform
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation (Git, Jenkins, Automated Testing, etc.)