DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid) Security Clearance: TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph
Our client is currently in search of a talented DevOps Engineer to play a vital role in the design, deployment, and upkeep of a comprehensive containerized microservices architecture. Your responsibilities will extend to technical systems administration, encompassing installation and configuration tasks. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in cultivating a DevOps mindset within the organization, fostering robust cross-functional collaboration across systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams. This position offers an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Responsibilities
To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging
Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements
Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings
Minimum Requirements
BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master's degree.
Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
Comfortable working in Linux
Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with systems at scale
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
Experience on a production/ enterprise system
Experience with any of the following technologies: Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
GPU-based Kubernetes
SALT for deployment automation
Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience