Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats. Be part of an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the nation's most critical intelligence organizations. Your work directly impacts national security and global issues, you will have the chance to contribute to missions that are of paramount importance to the United States and its allies, know that that the environments and programs you support are making a difference on a global scale. Our customers operate at the forefront of technology, dealing with some of the most advanced defense, geospatial, and intelligence systems in the world.
What you will be working on:
As the DevOps Engineer, you will support 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. You will also be an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
- 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
- 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
- Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
- On-call support may be required
What you will bring to us:
- Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain a CI Polygraph
- Current DoD IAT II Level certification or the ability to successfully obtain one within 90 days of hire
- 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
Would be nice if you bring the following:
- 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)
- 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
- Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
- Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
- 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
What you will get:
- Joining a team of technology experts and partners in the same mission
- A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows
- Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance
- Highly competitive benefits package that shows we want to hire the very best
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans or veterans with service-connected disabilities, are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance applying outside of the online application, please contact recruiting@blackspoke.com for more information.
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