DevOps Engineer

Verite Group, Inc.

St. Louis, MO

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Access Control, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Architectural Services, Atlassian JIRA, Authentication, Automation, Autoscaling, Bash Scripting, Best Practices, Career Development, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Configuration Management, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cost Control, DevOps, Docker, Documentation, Firewalls, Functional Testing, Identify Issues, Interpersonal Skills, Leading Edge Technology, Load Balancing, Maintenance Services, Microservices, On Call, Operations Management, Operations Security (OPSEC), Performance Analysis, Problem Solving Skills, Production Systems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, SSH (Secure Shell), Scrum Project Management and Software Development, Security Monitoring, Security Patches, Security Protocols, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Software Administration, Software Development, Software Engineering, System Operations, Systems Administration/Management, Systems Analysis, Team Player, Test Plan/Schedule, Time Management, Top Secret Clearance, Unit Test, United States Citizen, Unix Shell Programming, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), VPN (Virtual Private Network), Writing Skills
LOCATION
St. Louis, MO
POSTED
11 days ago

DevOps Engineer

St. Louis, MO

TS/SCI

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What Impact You'll Have

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a DevOps Engineer. Here, you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you'll make an end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career grow ours. As a DevOps Engineer, Sr. you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

In this role, you'll join the Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud engineering will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers' operations. As a DevOps Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services.

What You'll be Owning

  • Automate and optimize service deployments
  • Integrate with enterprise authentication services
  • Establish and improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within test, development, and production systems.
  • Architect, build and maintain On-Prem and 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, like access control and vulnerability testing
  • Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
  • Maintain documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
  • 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
  • Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
  • On-call support will be required

What You Must Have

  • US Citizenship and active TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a CI Polygraph
  • Degree in a relevant area and 8+ years of relevant experience, additional years of experience can offset degree requirement.
  • Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
  • Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
  • Understanding of GitLab or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools
  • 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 On-Prem infrastructure

What Would be Nice to Have

  • Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
  • Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
  • Ability to write and use unit and functional testing
  • Experience using Jira and Confluence

About the Company

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Verite Group, Inc.