DevOps Engineer - Level 3
Location: Fort Meade, MD
3+Year Contract
Full Scope Polygraph Required
Position Overview
Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for developing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Python), managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Argo CD), maintaining and hardening RHEL environments, and administering AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms to deliver a highly available microservices-based operational system within an on-site SCIF environment; requires TS/SCI with Full Scope polygraph, Security+CE, and 9+ years of experience.
Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:
· Developing Infrastructure as Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
· Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL
· Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.
· Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
· Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
· Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
· The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
Basic Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
· 9 years or more of professional experience; or 7 years of professional experience with a related master’s degree.
· An active Top-Secret clearance with Full Scope polygraph.
· Current Security+CE certificate.
Desired skills (2 of the below):
· Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
· Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
· Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
· Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
· Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
· Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate
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