DevOps Engineer

Kavaliro - Fayetteville, NC

Full-time - Senior

Fayetteville, NC

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The DevOps Engineer role at Kavaliro involves managing and automating platform services, ensuring system reliability and security, and guiding software releases. The position requires a strong background in IT and software, particularly in DevOps methodologies, and offers the opportunity to work in a mission-critical environment.

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.
• Support users through consolidation and troubleshoot system-related problems.
• Perform administrative operations of server hardware and software.
• Ensure system security and execute practices and procedures.
• 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.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• 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; effective listening skills and follow-through.
• Detail-oriented and organized; possess a holistic understanding of IT systems.
• Proficient in composing Linux automation scripts (shell/BASH).
• Experience working with container technologies (Docker, rkt, containerd, and/or lxd).
• 3 years of Kubernetes experience related to maintaining clusters and deploying applications.

Nice-to-haves

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