RockStar DevSecOps Engineer who knows Python

Black Cape

Rock Star Python Backend Developer who Loves DevSecOps (Mid Sr DevOps Engineer)

This Team is Growing and this DevOps Role is the heart of the next phase of the project for the Next 5 Years. The DevSecOps Engineer will set up deploy update and secure the next generation of This Programs Systems globally. This is a Fun and Really complex architecture role with a lot of problemsolving.

Location(s): Herndon VA
Also could work in Reston VA Washington DC (JBAB) OR Chantilly VA (various locations)

ONSITE Expectations: Ability to go ONSITE Up to 5 days per week as needed

CLEARANCE: ***MUST HAVE an Active TS/SCI Clearance****

***If you do not have a TS/SCI security clearance we likely will NOT contact you. It does take US citizens 6 months 2 years to attain so we do need folks that already have one in place***

***Must be Willing to SIT for a CI Polygraph***

DESCRIPTION:

Black Cape is seeking a Midlevel to Seniorlevel DevOps Engineer with a minimum of 4 years of experience working on production systems.

We are seeking selfstarters who can learn new technologies and can accomplish tasks in the absence of daytoday product and engineering oversight.

The candidate should have solid knowledge and experience in the areas of deploying software to cloud and onprem environments Continuous Integration/Deployment/Monitoring (CI/CD) containerization microservice environments and experience with provisioning tools.

This position will primarily serve on a missionfocused data management and analytics project that is powering machine learning via a large data pipeline supporting national security usecases.

Candidates should be able to satisfy the below requirements but also take an active role in articulating and delivering a technical vision. The ideal candidates will have the ability to communicate advantages and disadvantages of each technology and work collaboratively to answer a larger technical vision with the appropriate technology.

This Teammate will be expected to discuss the technologies below (to the best of their ability) and speak to their experience fielding maintaining or navigating technology projects with those technologies.

POSITION OBJECTIVES:

1. Operate and maintain a missioncritical cloud based system in multiple customer environments
2. Deploy the latest code and security updates to cloudbased systems
3. Make system changes to ensure all configurations work in a clustered deployment environment
4. Provide recommendations and a pathway on how to scale each component of a given technology e.g. how to scale processing and storage across a complex technology product
5. Support the engineering team in benchmarking components of the system

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• ExperiencewithPythonandbashscriptingtoautomatetasks;PrefersomeonethatcanwriteeditandautomatePythoncode
• ExperiencewithcreatingDockerImagesandbeingabletopatchandupdatesystems
• ExperiencewithdeployingtocontainerorchestrationplatformssuchasKubernetesOpenShiftRancherandDockerSwarm(willtakeAnyofthese)
• CertificatessuchasCompTIASecurityCISSPandAWScertificationsorWillingtoGETthemifNotalreadycompleted
• TS/SCIclearanceandabilitytogetPrivilegedUserAccess(PUA)oncustomersystems
• Abilitytogoonsiteupto5daysaweektocustomersites
• Strongcommunicationskillsandtheabilitytoworkonsmallteamstoaccomplishmissiongoals
• Experienceworkinginclassifiedenvironments;Awarenessoftechnicallimitationswithinthosesystemsandenvironments
• Familiarityandexperiencenegotiatingcomplexaccreditationandsecurityrequirements
• StrongpreferencetocandidateswithademonstratedexperienceoftheaccreditationandRMFprocess
• ExperienceoperatingandmaintainingsystemsdeployedtoLinuxbasedenvironments.
• ExperiencewithcloudenvironmentsincludingAWSAzureorGoogleCloudPlatform.PreferenceisforAWSexperience
• ExperiencewithGitlabCIJenkinsBambooorotherCI/CDtoolsforautomatingdeployments
• ExperiencewithcloudprovisioningtoolssuchasTerraformAWSCloudFormationorAzureResourceManager.
• ExperiencewithsoftwareprovisioningtoolssuchasAnsibleorSaltstack

HighlyDesiredKnowledgeSkillsandAbilities:

• ExperienceworkingwithstreamingdataandautomationsystemssuchasKafkaNiFiRabbitMQorsimilar
• ExperienceworkingwithHELM(KubernetesPackageManager)
• ExperienceworkingwithS3compliantdatastores(AWSS3AzureBlobMinIO)
• Experienceworkingwithdocumentstoragesolutions(ElasticsearchMongo)
• Experiencewithdesigninghighlyscalablefailsafecloudnativesystemstosupportcloudnativesystemswithdataprocessingpipelines

About the company: (Black Cape)

Want to be a part of a LOYAL Intelligent Talented Dynamic & FUN 5 year old Team and help build something GREAT

• Then you should consider Us!
• We work with the Intelligence Community to accomplish their goals!
• Come join us in creating cloudnative web applications advanced data analysis tools and new machine learning capabilities

Be a part of a team that is making an IMPACT on the world and its safety and HAVE FUN while doing so!

This 5 year old company has been developed by Proven Success Stories in the way of Founders.

We are a COOL and FUN crew that works hard and plays maybe even a little harder!!

Our Core Team is an impressive bunch with exceptional Leadership at the helm!

Black Cape is a VeteranOwned Small Business with a strong reputation working with top tier partners supporting many programs across the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense as both a prime and a subcontractor. Black Cape provides fullstack software development and software integration capabilities for traditional cloud and hybridcloud environments. We also bring experience in building and deploying machine learning models and artificial intelligence applications.

Our experienced and highly skilled engineers and analysts apply proven and repeatable technical and analytical approaches and frequent interaction with end users to produce and deploy taskspecific to enterprisedeployable capabilities. Black Capes technical focus areas include:

Software Engineering for Mission Applications. Our team applies a proven datacentric methodology to our agile software development. We excel at rapid prototyping in demanding environments and have a proven track record for getting relevant capabilities deployed to DoD and Coalition Partner endusers.

Data Analytics. We help National Security customers apply proven principles to operate data science teams and data fusion cells with maximum impact. Our experience operating on classified networks (e.g. SOIS SOCRATES JWICS SIPRNET) ensures we only bring methods and technologies that are approved for use in government environments.

Machine Learning. We apply bestofbreed machine learning frameworks TensorFlow scikitlearn and xgboost to create and deploy machine learning models for classification and regression. In addition to standard supervised machine learning techniques we bring unique instancebased learning capabilities based on WorldPixel8 and our historical data holdings.

The Black Cape model combines lessons learned from developing and deploying multiple applications to production on JWICS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) with commercial best practices in DevOps and Agile development. Our combination of practical experience and commercial practices is optimized to reduce risk and ensure successful capability delivery.

Our team develops and implements technical solutions on an aggressive schedule across the US Intelligence Community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Our experienced and highly skilled engineers and analysts apply proven and repeatable technical and analytical approaches and frequent interaction with end users to produce and deploy the appropriate capabilities.

Great Benefits: Competitive Salary 401K Matching Generous Paid Time Off Medical and MORE!

CONTACT: emailprotected to learn MORE!!