Production Operations (ProdOps) Engineer

About the role

The candidate should have solid knowledge and experience in the areas of deploying software to cloud and on-prem environments, Continuous Integration/Deployment/Monitoring (CI/CD), containerization, microservice environments, and experience with provisioning tools.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain a mission-critical cloud based system in multiple environments.
• Maintain monitoring of the state of services and systems used globally, resolving outages and problems as they arise and escalating when necessary.
• Deploy the latest code and security updates to cloud-based systems.
• Make system changes to ensure all configurations work in a clustered deployment environment.
• Provide recommendations and a pathway on how to scale each component of a given technology, e.g., how to scale processing and storage across a complex technology product.
• Support the engineering team in benchmarking components of the system.

Requirements

• TS/SCI clearance and ability to get Privileged User Access (PUA) on customer systems.
• Ability to go onsite up to 5 days a week to customer sites and work extended hours as necessary.
• Familiarity and experience negotiating complex accreditation and security requirements.
• Strong preference to candidates with a demonstrated experience of the accreditation and RMF process.
• Experience operating and maintaining systems deployed to Linux-based environments.
• Experience with cloud environments including AWS, OpenShift, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud provisioning tools such as Helm or AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with multiple teams to accomplish mission goals.
• Must have an active Security+ or CISSP certificate and one technical certificate such as CKAD or AWS certification.

Qualifications

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Salt Stack.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Python and bash scripting to automate tasks.
• Experience working with S3 compliant data stores (AWS S3, Azure Blob, MinIO).
• Experience working with document storage solutions (Elasticsearch, Mongo).
• Experience working with streaming data and automation systems such as Kafka, NiFi, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Experience with designing highly scalable, fail-safe, cloud native systems to support cloud native systems with data processing pipelines.

Skills

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Salt Stack.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Python and bash scripting to automate tasks.
• Experience working with S3 compliant data stores (AWS S3, Azure Blob, MinIO).
• Experience working with document storage solutions (Elasticsearch, Mongo).
• Experience working with streaming data and automation systems such as Kafka, NiFi, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Experience with designing highly scalable, fail-safe, cloud native systems to support cloud native systems with data processing pipelines.

Benefits

• 401K
• Competitive Salary
• Generous Time Off
• Exceptional Team-Building & Fun Company Events
• Mentorship & Professional Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Parental Leave