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Springfield, VA - Salary Range 150-185 (TS/SCI w Poly Required) Job Brief We are looking for highly energetic, TS-SCI cleared, IT professionals who are interested in joining our seasoned team of technologists. We are focused on driving significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise-wide IT operations and performing routine O&M for an IC agency. The program itself supports a broad range of IT enterprise services for end-users around the globe, with smaller project teams that focus on particular areas (i.e. Platform as a Service, Application Services, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, API Management, etc.). We are looking for hands-on professionals, team players, and engaged individuals who enjoy keeping up with the latest tech stacks and technology trends. We have positions open at all levels and in multiple geographies. This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team the DevOps Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment. Responsibilities Automate and optimize service deployments
Integrate with enterprise authentication services
Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
Administer production, staging and development environments
Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
Manage operational readiness board - present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
Aligns to the customer's strategies
Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest
On-call support may be required
Required Skills 3+ years of related systems programming experience
Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)
Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes
Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
TS/SCI clearance w/ CI poly
You must meet one of the below combinations of education and RELEVANT experience to be considered: