DevOps Engineers

Day to Day Responsibilities/typical day look like: 

As a DevOps Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services, automating the installation, configuration, and maintenance of platform services. You will manage system tuning for reliability and efficiency and guide and manage software releases for new features and support users through consolidation. Occasionally performs the administrative operation of server hardware and software. Ensures system security and executes practices and procedures. Troubleshoots system related problems. Remains current in operating systems/software analysis and technological developments and applications. Recommends future direction or projects to management. Provides expertise and direction in the development or modification of software programs and applications to enhance an operating system.

Selling Points for Candidates: Flexible Schedule- work 5 8s or 4 10 hr shift (3 day weekend) 

Requirements: 

5 years of IT and/or software experience.

3 years experience working in production Amazon Web Services environments

DOD 8570 IAT Level II Required (Level III Preferred)

In depth understanding of DevOps methodologies and working within Agile teams

Worked with Concourse, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity or other Continuous Integration tools

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; shows tact; effective listening skills and follow through

Solid worth ethic and the ability to work in a mission critical environment

Detail oriented and organized; possess holistic understanding of IT systems

Provides technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience

Proficient composing Linux automation scripts (shell/BASH)

Experience working with container technologies (Docker, rkt, containerd, and/or lxd)

3 years of Kubernetes experience as it relates to maintaining clusters and deploying applications hosted on Kubernetes clusters

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Experience in multiple public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)

Experience with a platform as a service product such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, or similar

In-depth working knowledge writing Ansible playbooks

Experience managing and deploying applications in an air-gapped environment

Experience working with complex IDaM requirements and technologies (e.g. Active Directory, SAML, openLDAP, hardware tokens, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, etc.)

Understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics especially at the container level with APM and/or other tools such as Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, etc.)

Experience working with Windows automation (PowerShell)

Experience working with Gitlab for SDLC (CI/CD) functionality

Experience working with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Discourse. Rocketchat

Experience using Rancher to manage Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes-hosted applications

Experience implementing and maintaining a robust PKI infrastructure within a DOD context

Ability to write rudimentary APIs and/or write automation to interact with existing APIs

Pluses: Eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI

*Please note that as a contract employee of Apex Systems, benefits include the below with employee contribution*