US Citizenship is required
An active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is required
DoD 8570 IAT2 certificate required, i.e. CompTIA Security+
DevOps Engineer
DPG is seeking a talented and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our customer's team in a classified environment. You will be constantly optimizing systems and services for security, automation, and performance/availability, while ensuring solutions developed adhere and align to architecture standards.
- Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure
- Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments
- Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management
- Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions
- Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management
- Provide operational support for the platform
- Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher
- Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS
Required Skills:
- 5 years of experience directly related to Linux System Administration and DevOps, including installation and maintenance of software and hardware.
- Experience administering Red Hat Linux based systems with minimal support, to include kickstart, patching (satellite servers), creating RPM packages, performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
- Extensive experience with scripting, particularly in Bash and/or Python
- Experienced using automation tools/frameworks such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
- Experience with recent versions of VMware (ESXi and vCenter) and/or AWS
- Hands-on experience working with developer tools including Git, Arifactory, Bitbucket, CI/CD tools, and Jira
- Experience with Rancher
- NAS and SAN administration experience
- Experience using Agile/Scrum development methodology (SAFe, Scrum, Khanban)
- Must be able to lift up to 35 pounds in support of hardware installations.
- Strong analytic and research skills - must be detail oriented
- Must be able to support occasional after hour maintenance
- Required to provide rotational pager (on-call) support
- Must be a US Citizen with a current TS-SCI clearance with CI poly
- Must have an active CompTIA Security+ or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification
Desired Skills:
- Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework
- Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C
- Experience with containerization
- Installation and management of fiber channel switches
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and troubleshoot problems with efficiency
- Requires the ability to effectively interact with external personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations and vendors
- Communication and diplomatic skills
Overview of Benefits:
- Company Funded 401k Profit Sharing Plan - 25% of base pay deposited every pay period - Vested day one of employment
- All Health Care Benefits and Premiums paid by company and with company HSA contribution
- Quarterly Equity Share Bonuses
- 250 hours of PTO with up to 40 hours available to be carried over
- Biannual Company Sponsored Events for the employees and their families
- Education Benefits - Cert reimbursement and tuition reimbursement