DevOps Engineer

- Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain a CI Polygraph 

- Current DoD IAT II Level certification?or the ability to successfully obtain one within 90 days of hire

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

As the DevOps Engineer, you will support 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. You will also be an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings. 

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

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

Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline

On-call support may be required

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)

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

Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure

Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis

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