DevOps Platform Engineer

About the position

As a DevOps engineer, you’re eager to develop, manage, and secure a container platform that meets your client’s needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities. We need you to develop container management software to solve some of our clients’ toughest challenges. As a senior platform DevOps Platform Engineer at Booz Allen, you can use your technical skills to affect mission-forward change. On our team, you’ll hone your skills using the latest cloud technologies as you look for ways to improve your client’s environment with current container software to ensure seamless orchestration. Using your DevOps platform experience, you’ll support your team as you inform strategy and design while ensuring standards are met throughout the containerization process. You’ll recommend resources that will help your client manage and securely adopt containers. Additionally, you’ll continue to strengthen your DevOps skills while supporting the development of critical cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop container management software to solve client challenges.
• Support the team in informing strategy and design for containerization.
• Ensure standards are met throughout the containerization process.
• Recommend resources for managing and securely adopting containers.
• Strengthen DevOps skills while supporting the development of cloud platforms.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity.
• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues related to CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness.
• 5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes for improving continuous deployment tools.
• 3+ years of experience automating, monitoring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.
• 3+ years of experience developing, managing, and securing containers.
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, or Configuration as Code, including Ansible.
• Experience with version control, such as advanced Git usage, branching strategies, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with CI/CD Gitlab pipelines, designing and implementing HA solutions, and advanced DR strategies and implementation.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience in software engineering, or 8+ years of experience in software engineering in lieu of a degree.

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of experience working closely with software development teams.
• Experience in an Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineer role.
• Experience with project, task, and team leadership.
• Experience deploying active AWS or Azure services using Infrastructure-as-Code technologies, including CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP services.
• Experience with configmaps, RBAC, StatefulSets, and DaemonSets.
• Experience with Java, Python, C#, C/C++, .NET, JavaScript, React, NodeJS, PHP, or Drupal.
• Secret clearance.
• Master’s degree.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certification.

Benefits

• Health, life, and disability insurance.
• Financial and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Professional development.
• Tuition assistance.
• Work-life programs.
• Dependent care.
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance.