Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Location: Springfield, VA

Eligibility/Clearance: This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance

Job Description:

We are looking for highly energetic, TS-SCI cleared, IT professionals

who are interested in joining our seasoned team of technologists. We are

focused on driving significant enhancements in the efficiency and

effectiveness of enterprise-wide IT operations and performing routine

O&M for an IC agency. The program itself supports a broad range of IT

enterprise services for end-users around the globe, with smaller project

teams that focus on particular areas (i.e. Platform as a Service,

Application Services, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, API

Management, etc.). We are looking for hands-on professionals, team

players, and engaged individuals who enjoy keeping up with the latest

tech stacks and technology trends. We have positions open at all levels

and in multiple geographies.



This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area

to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As

part of the GSS 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.



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



Required Skills:



- 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



- TS/SCI clearance w/ CI poly



- You must meet one of the below combinations of education and

RELEVANT experience to be considered:



+------------------+---------------------------------------------------+

| Level 1 - Junior | - Masters Degree + 0 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Bachelor’s Degree + 2 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Associates Degree + 4 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - High School Diploma/GED + 6 Years Experience |

+==================+===================================================+

| Level 2 - Mid | - PhD + 0 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Masters Degree + 2 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Bachelor’s Degree + 4 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Associates Degree + 6 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - High School Diploma/GED + 8 Years Experience |

+------------------+---------------------------------------------------+

| Level 3 - Senior | - PhD + 2 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Master’s Degree + 4 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Bachelor’s Degree + 6 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Associates Degree + 8 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - High School Diploma/GED + 10 Years Experience |

+------------------+---------------------------------------------------+

| Level 4 - Expert | - PhD + 4 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Master’s Degree + 6 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Bachelor’s Degree + 8 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - Associates Degree + 10 Years Experience |

| | |

| | - High School Diploma/GED + 12 Years Experience |

+------------------+---------------------------------------------------+



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