Cloud DevOps Engineer

Allegis Group - Liberty, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Liberty, NC

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Cloud DevOps Engineer role at TEKsystems involves managing and automating cloud services, ensuring system reliability, and guiding software releases. The position requires expertise in various technologies, particularly within Amazon Web Services (AWS), and emphasizes a strong understanding of DevOps methodologies and Agile practices. The engineer will also provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers and troubleshoot system-related issues.

Responsibilities

• Automate the installation, configuration, and maintenance of platform services.
• Manage system tuning for reliability and efficiency.
• Guide and manage software releases for new features.
• Perform administrative operations of server hardware and software.
• Ensure system security and execute practices and procedures.
• Troubleshoot system-related problems.
• Remain current in operating systems/software analysis and technological developments.
• Recommend future direction or projects to management.
• Provide expertise and direction in the development or modification of software programs and applications.

Requirements

• 5 years of IT and/or software experience.
• 3 years experience working in production Amazon Web Services environments.
• DOD 8570 IAT Level II required (Level III preferred).
• Experience working with container technologies (Docker, rkt, containerd, and/or lxd).
• 3 years of Kubernetes experience as it relates to maintaining clusters and deploying applications hosted on Kubernetes clusters.
• In-depth understanding of DevOps methodologies and working within Agile teams.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools like Concourse, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity.
• Experience working within virtualized environments.
• Experience with virtual networking appliances and related technologies (NGINX, HAProxy, F5, AWS ALB/NLB, TLS/SSL).
• Experience working with Git-centric workflows.
• Experience in release management.
• Competent to work at a high technical level on all phases of systems engineering activities.
• Excellent communication and briefing skills; shows tact; effective listening skills and follow through.
• Solid work ethic and the ability to work in a mission-critical environment.
• Detail-oriented and organized; possess holistic understanding of IT systems.
• Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience.
• Proficient in composing Linux automation scripts (shell/BASH).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in multiple public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with a platform as a service product such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, or similar.
• In-depth working knowledge writing Ansible playbooks.
• Experience managing and deploying applications in an air-gapped environment.
• Experience working with complex IDaM requirements and technologies (e.g. Active Directory, SAML, openLDAP, hardware tokens, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, etc.).
• Understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics especially at the container level with APM and/or other tools such as Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience working with Windows automation (PowerShell).
• Experience working with Gitlab for SDLC (CI/CD) functionality.
• Experience working with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Discourse, Rocketchat.
• Experience using Rancher to manage Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes-hosted applications.
• Experience implementing and maintaining a robust PKI infrastructure within a DOD context.
• Ability to write rudimentary APIs and/or write automation to interact with existing APIs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)