Principal Linux DevOps Analyst

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of standards, practices, and procedures that impacts how the Scorpius accelerator control system communications network interfaces with NNSS’s IT and Cyber systems.
• Participate in defining software requirements for development, maintenance, and improvements by responding to questions concerning software design and implementation.
• Take ownership of technical problems and sees them through to resolution.
• Guide programmers and analysts in systems analysis, development, or maintenance techniques; selection of design alternatives; performance analysis; and programming techniques.
• Cookordination, development, implementation plans for installation, testing, and maintenance.
• Prepare time and cost estimates and schedule for software development, maintenance, and modification tasks.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot RHEL Linux servers/workstations including automated OS imaging.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot DevOps and software supply chain platforms.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot container orchestration platforms.
• Incorporate DevSecOps cybersecurity best practices.
• System architecture and documentation.
• Develop GitLab CI/CD pipelines for DevOps and AI/ML workflows.
• Liaison between IT & Cybersecurity.
• Collaborate with other National Laboratories and incorporate their technology stacks which may differ from internal standards.
• Install, configure, maintain and troubleshoot Tril-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS), a Linux distribution based on RHEL created for high performance HPC clusters for laboratories within the National Nuclear Security Administration, allowing multiple smaller systems to emulate a high-performance computing (HPD) platform.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer related field or equivalent computer-related experience with at least 8 years of relevant, progressively responsible experience.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of technical principles, theories, standards, practices and procedures in software development or database administration.
• Able to lead complex projects that may involve collaboration with multiple IT sections, other departments, consultants, as well as outside business units.
• Must be willing to accept responsibility in new areas and possess the level of technical and analytical skills that will provide successful outcomes to those assignments.
• Must have expert experience in broad range of tools and technology used by NNSS.
• The aptitude and desire to continually learn about new tools and technology and have the ability to evaluate the best solution for stated problems.
• Experience handling dependencies in a secure/air-gapped environment.
• Familiarity with mainstream programming languages (Python, C/C++, etc.) and building/compiling code from source.
• Familiarity with OT Systems.
• Familiarity with Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS).
• Familiarity with GitLab, JFrog, Ansible, Satellite, Podman.
• Building and running AI, ML, and data science workloads with containers.
• Familiarity with GPU Clusters.