DevOps Engineer

Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

City: Bethesda

State/Territory: Maryland

Travel: None

Potential for Teleworking: Yes

Schedule: Full Time

US Citizenship Required? : Yes

Job Description

As a DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross-functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging.
• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection, and resilient deployments.
• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments.
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
• Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements.
• Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team.
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and other meetings.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree.
• Comfortable working in Linux.
• Container or container orchestration experience (Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Development experience (Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution.
• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques.
• Experience on a production/enterprise system.
• Experience with any of the following technologies: Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS), Kubernetes monitoring (e.g., Prometheus/Graphana), GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash (specifically admin experience), Helm and Helmfile, Nexus.

Benefits

• Choose from over 60 gold-level medical plans from Aetna, CareFirst BCBS, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare.
• Choose from PPO, EPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans with Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account Options.
• 100% Paid Premiums for Dental and Vision Insurance.
• Income Protection: 100% Paid Premiums for Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, and Basic Term Life Insurance.
• Retirement: 8% Company Contribution to 401k with Immediate Vesting of Contributions and Pre-Tax and Roth Options.
• Leave: Up to 20 Days of Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 Days of Paid Floating Holidays.
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible Work Schedules including Flex Time and Compressed Work Period, Remote Work including Partial or Fully Remote.

Company Information: Base-2 Solutions is an SBA-certified woman-owned small business (WOSB) founded in Washington, DC, employing personnel to support our national security mission and the forward-deployed Warfighter. We are a premier provider of solutions in Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Big Data, DevSecOps, and Data Analytics.