Sr. DevOps Engineer

About the position

As a DevOps Engineer, Sr. you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer, Sr. joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA. 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

Requirements

• 8+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 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
• Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Nice-to-haves

• 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

Benefits

• Health and Wellbeing: Heath, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
• Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program