DevOps Engineer Sr

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a DevOps Engineer Sr on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design engineering procurement implementation operations sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains at multiple locations worldwide to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the belowskills and qualificationsand be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

• Automates and optimizes service deployments.

• Integrates with enterprise authentication services.

• Establishes and Improves system monitoring while maintaining establishedsecurity protocols within development test and production systems.

• Builds tests and maintains custom Helm Charts using Gitlab and ArgoCD.

• Builds tests and maintains custom OpenShift Operators.

• Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to create complex citemplates and custom runners.

• Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain Container software revisions security patches hardening and documentation.

• Creates FIPS compliant and hardens custom container images using UBI9minimal and UBI9micro base images.

• Maintains up to date documentation of designs/configurations ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.

• Creates and determines required metrics for dashboards and service health.

• Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validate completion.

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly.

Degree and Years of Experience: 8 years and Bachelors 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.

• 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.

Required Skills:

• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes.
• 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 on a daily basis.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in building custom operators with the operatorsdk.
• Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or APIs.
• Go programming language experience.

Abile Group Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients. We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients subject matter experience and Abiles breadth of expertise.

Abile Group Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.

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