SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER (TS/SCI Clearance required)

NorthHill Technology

  • Springfield, Virginia
  • 23 days ago

    Highlights

    Senior DevOps Engineer In this role, you'll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSpringfield, Virginia

    Description

    NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA.  This is a direct-hire role with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator.  An active TS/SCI Clearance is required, will sponsor for CI Polygraph within first year.

    Senior DevOps Engineer

    In this role, you'll join our 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 operations 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.

     

    Specific Duties and 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-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, and drive security initiatives, 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
    • 8+ years of relevant experience

    Required Skills:

    • 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

    Desired Skills:

    • 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

    Location: On Customer Site

    US Citizenship Required

     

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