DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI
Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid) 
Security Clearance: TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph

Our client is currently in search of a talented DevOps Engineer to play a vital role in the design, deployment, and upkeep of a comprehensive containerized microservices architecture. Your responsibilities will extend to technical systems administration, encompassing installation and configuration tasks. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in cultivating a DevOps mindset within the organization, fostering robust cross-functional collaboration across systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams. This position offers an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities 

• To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging
• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
• Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements
• Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings

Minimum Requirements 

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree.
• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
• Comfortable working in Linux
• Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
• Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with systems at scale
• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
• Experience on a production/ enterprise system
• Experience with any of the following technologies: Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
• Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
• GPU-based Kubernetes
• SALT for deployment automation
• Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience
• Helm and Helmfile