MD-DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI w/ Polygraph with Security Clearance

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
• Build a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production
• Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
• Set-up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
• Maintain / upgrade/ patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence / Jira)
• Create, Assist, and Implement design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployments
• Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated
• Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements
• Assist with support and operations where necessary
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored, or accessed
• Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java
• Proficient with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies
• Proficient automating network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking
• Able to have a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture
• Understand SLA requirements and role of high availability architectures, performance optimization, and monitoring techniques
• Act in the capacity to support deployment and operations when necessary
• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes
• Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, ansible, etc.)
• Experience working cross functionally across multiple teams

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher is required in either Engineering (i.e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science
• Minimum of ten (10) years of related experience (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)

Preferred Qualifications

• VMWARE (Hands on experience deploying and managing workloads in customer environments)
• Kubernetes
• Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2)
• Hands on experience deploying and installing cluster architectures and software components in accordance with customer security and compliance requirements
• Kafka
• Docker
• Java
• NiFi
• PostgreSQL
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Data flow and lifecycle management experience