DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Dayton, OH

Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI and be willing to obtain a CI Polygraph clearance

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer that has exceptional experience in Python and AWS to support a large R&D program that is focused on providing advanced intelligence capabilities for the benefit of the DoD and IC communities.  The right candidate will have deep hands-on expertise with microservices / container architectures (e.g. Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes), and should have experience with configuration/management tools such as Gitlab. You will support a very high visibility project and be part of a mid-sized team where you will work with application development teams across the software development life cycle, creating solutions to complex problems within a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing AWS Cloud-based hosting solutions, as well as Cloudbased backup and recovery, including failover zones.
• Executing AWS billing and accounting best practices to minimize oversubscription of AWS cloud environment services
• Troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues for CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness
• Developing tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
• Performing automated testing, automated deployments (CI/CD pipelines), and branching strategy and implementation.

Required Must Have Skills:

•  Hands-on experience with microservices / container architectures (e.g. Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes) orchestration and automation
• Kubernetes skills required:   ArgoCD, Helm, Prometheus
• Experience with configuration/management tools such as Gitlab
• Strong python scripting/programming  skills
• Experience developing enterprise AWS cloud-native solutions
• Experience hosting applications on commercial cloud providers 
• Experience with Jenkins, GitLab runners, GitHub actions, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Pulumi
• TS/SCI clearance with a CI polygraph
• Bachelor's degree in CS or Computer Engineering

Desired/Bonus Skills:  

• Experience managing and maintaining ElasticSearch and Kibana
• Grafana experience
• Golang experience
• Experience creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks
• Experience creating and improving continuous deployment tools built on Kubernetes
• Experience triaging and resolving issues related to both open-source and commercial tools in public cloud environments
• Experience bringing other organizations on board with DevOps, championing the adoption of DevOps processes, tools, and roles, and working with other development teams to recast work
• Master's degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• NGA or IC Domain Experience

 Qualifications (education/experience substitutions are allowed):

• Mid-level candidates must have a B.A./B.S. and 4 years of experience
• Senior level candidates must have a B.A./B.S. and 10 years of experience
• SME level candidates must have a M.A./M.S. and 18 years of experience