Junior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients.
• Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers’ operations.
• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
• Architect, build and maintain On-Prem and cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
• Administer production, staging and development environments
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
• Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
• Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On-call support will be required

Qualifications

• Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly
• Education/Experience: 2+ years of experience Required
• Skills: Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift), Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes, Understanding of GitLab or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools, Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices, Knowledge of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting, Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design, Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills, Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised, Experience with deploying On-Prem infrastructure