Cloud/DevOps Engineers

$150,000 - $150,000/Yr

ASGN - Arlington, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Arlington, VA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

Apex Systems is seeking a DevOps/Cloud Engineer to manage and automate platform services, ensuring system reliability and security. This role involves working with distributed services, guiding software releases, and troubleshooting system issues. The position offers a flexible schedule and is located in Fort Liberty, NC, with a contract-to-hire duration of 6 months.

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).
• 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).
• 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.

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

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Hospitalization Coverage
• Direct Deposit
• Weekly Pay Periods
• Training and Development Programs
• 401k
• Referral Program