DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Bethesda Maryland 20816
Onsite Requirements:

• Linux systems and Container technology experience
• TS/SCI clearance
• scripting/automation or development experience

Job Description:

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• 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.
• You will 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.
• You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, other software integrators and system administrators on the following key tasks:
• To 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

Required Skills:

• Comfortable working in Linux
• Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
• Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

Desired Skills:

• Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes applications
• Experience with systems at scale
• 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

**3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.

This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.

This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role.

Due to the nature of the work, a United States Government Clearance is required to be eligible for the position**