DevOps Engineer: TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly

This position is a blend of devops and operational support where you will work closely with penetration testers to automate the deployment of servers and clusters of servers for penetration testing. You will get first-hand experience working with operations and directly supporting mission objectives. The job includes designing and deploying infrastructure using orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt, automating testing of tools and infrastructure, and writing bash and Python scripts to help with task automation. Support is primarily focused on automation of currently manual tasks to speed the deployment of tools and infrastructure. Personnel in this role will need to remain agile and adjust to changing operational conditions and scenarios.

Inferno Systems is currently looking for a DevOps Engineer to build out and automate the deployment of servers and clusters of servers in both air gapped and internet cloud environments. You should have a minimum of 5 years of overall development experience in addition to the requirements below.., * Create and maintain DevOps projects focused on automated testing, infrastructure deployment and log aggregation.

• Optimizing support for ongoing, rapidly changing operational activities/needs by applying technical knowledge/expertise to implement changes.
• Link, analyze, and assess technical capabilities for operations and business systems between all internal applications.
• Document technical information into clear, readable Confluence (or other technical documentation platforms) pages used to support the Penetration Testers and other technical and non-technical personnel.
• Assist in identifying potential gaps and/or risks so that operational support is properly maintained.
• Must be a strong and flexible communicator, facilitator and collaborator.
• Experience in Agile software methodologies or equivalent.
• Ability to research, analyze, prioritize, problem solve, and work several tasks concurrently with minimal supervision., * High-level software development lifecycle expert.
• Experience programming in Python and scripting in Bash.
• Experience with both Linux and Windows, but with an emphasis on Linux.
• Understanding of Linux operating systems (e.g. CentOS Stream, Ubuntu, Fedora, Rocky, Debian, etc.)
• Experience developing in virtualized environments such as VMWare ESXi.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Can distill end objectives into individual requirements
• Experience with data flows, ETL general data processing.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet and/or Salt.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills to interface with a variety of customers and independently design and develop tools to meet requirements.
• Solid understanding of Linux logging and log aggregation software
• Ability to conduct network traffic analysis using tools such as tcpdump
• Familiarity with network traffic redirection (i.e. iptables).
• Familiar with using code repositories and git
• Familiar with using ticket tracking and documentation software such as Confluence, Jira or GitLab / GitHub.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Desire to learn Kubernetes
• Experience with automation and orchestration software such as Ansible, Salt or Puppet.
• Experience with installing, configuring and maintaining physical server hardware