RQ188991 - DevOps Engineer, Sr.
Scuttlebutt Services, LLC - Springfield, VA, United States
Springfield, VA - Salary Range 170-186k (TC/SCI Poly Required)
Job Brief
We are looking for highly energetic, TS-SCI cleared, IT professionals who are interested in joining our seasoned team of technologists. We are focused on driving significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise-wide IT operations and performing routine O&M for an IC agency. The program itself supports a broad range of IT enterprise services for end-users around the globe, with smaller project teams that focus on particular areas (i.e. Platform as a Service, Application Services, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, API Management, etc.). We are looking for hands-on professionals, team players, and engaged individuals who enjoy keeping up with the latest tech stacks and technology trends. We have positions open at all levels and in multiple geographies.
Basic Qualifications:
- TS/SCI clearance w/ CI poly
- You must meet one of the below combinations of education and RELEVANT experience to be considered:
Specific Duties and 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
- 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
- Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
- Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations
- Maintain status of operations at all times
- Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
- Manage operational readiness board and present at weekly meetings
- Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
- Align to customer's strategies
- Utilize the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
- Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest
- On-call support may be required
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in a related field
- 3+ years of related systems programming experience
- Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces
- Experience working with container images and platforms
- 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
- 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
Desired Qualifications and Skills:
- Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes-based environment using GitLab and Helm
- Understanding of access management and security groups
- Ability to write and use unit and functional testing