DEVOPS ENGINEER

Our work depends on aTS/SCIcleared DevOps Engineer, Sr. joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA. HOW A DEVOPS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the Team the DevOps Engineer’s expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment. The Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings. SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * 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 premise and/or 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 up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks * Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis.

Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking * Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health * 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 * Aligns to the customer’s strategies * Utilizes the customer’s enterprise DevSecOps pipeline * Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest * On-call support may be required Position Requirements Required Skills: * 8+ years and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience * 3+ years of related systems programming experience * Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios) * Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift) * Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes * Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes * Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices * Understanding 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 to on prem/data center infrastructure * Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis * Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a poly Desired * Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm * Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.) * Ability to write and use unit and functional testing * Location: On Customer Site * US Citizenship Required Location Springfield Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time Exempt/Non-Exempt Exempt Security Clearance Requirements Active TS / SCI Clearance and eligibility to obtain a Poly.