Sr Devops Engineer

Title: Sr.DevOps Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance) Location: Springfield, VA. (on-site) PTFS is a leader in digital content management solutions, content digitization, and library services/solutions, serving more than 500 organizations around the world. Position Summary: 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.
Build, test, and maintain custom Helm Charts using Gitlab and ArgoCD
Build, test, and maintain custom OpenShift Operators
Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to create complex ci-templates and custom runners.
Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain Container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
Create FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images.
Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validate completion. Required Skills: 8+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
3+ years of Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift
3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms
Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
3+ years of experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images
3+ years of experience using Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from Gitlab
Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds
Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed
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 daily
Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly Desired: Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk
Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or API's
Go programming language experience Benefits: 15 days paid time off per year
11 paid holidays per year
Medical, Dental & Vision
401(k) Plan with matching
Tuition assistance
Disability insurance