Lead DevOps Engineer

Bethesda, MD, US • Posted 15 hours ago • Updated 15 hours ago

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Skills

DevOps
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Apache Kafka
Elasticsearch
Jenkins
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes

Summary

You''ll own Kubernetes on AKS and GKE with a strong focus on security, reliability, and cost efficiency—establishing standards and guardrails. You''ll use Argo Workflows to orchestrate data pipelines and scheduled jobs at scale. You''ll lead the design, build, and continuous improvement of CI/CD with Jenkins and GitHub Actions. You''ll operate Kafka, CockroachDB (Postgres-compatible), Couchbase, and Elasticsearch for performance, resilience, and spend efficiency.

Bachelor''s Degree preferred or equivalent years of experience, 5-8 years preferred.
Multi-cloud Kubernetes ops (AKS/GKE): topology, RBAC, policies, upgrades, cost control.
CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions): pipelines-as-code, promotions, rollbacks, artifact hygiene.
Backstage IDP: service catalog, scaffolder templates, golden paths, scorecards/governance.
Argo Workflows (not CI/CD): DAG design, multi-tenant guardrails, quotas, artifact/versioning.
Distributed data ops: Kafka, CockroachDB, Couchbase, Elasticsearch—tuning, backup/restore, DR.
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo—SLO/SLI design, alerting, actionable runbooks.
Platform Dev: Go, Node.js, C#/.NET.

Top Skills Needed:

· Kubernetes‑first engineering background

· Deep expertise in Jenkins CI/CD

· Experience operating enterprise‑scale Kafka platforms

· Multi‑cloud environment: Azure and Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)

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Dice Id: 10113656
Position Id: 8910287
Posted 15 hours ago

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