DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Only Full time

Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be part of a team building, managing, and securing a container platform that meets clients' needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage container management software to solve some of our toughest challenges
• Use the latest cloud technologies to improve clients' environments with current container software to ensure seamless orchestration
• Build secure cloud infrastructures using the latest networking, virtualization, automation, and configuration management tools
• Automate configuration and hardening of containers
• Develop documentation, plans and SOP for containerization
• Provide recommendations on best practices, application modernization, and adapting to a constantly changing environment.
• Deploy enterprise applications in cloud platforms, incorporating automation, security, and reliability
• AWS provisioning, configuration management, storage management, network management, virtualization
• Create automated CI/CD pipelines and automating all aspects of infrastructure
• Develop automation to support service deployment and ease use and mgmt. of containerized images

Qualifications:

Required:

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, or Science and a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience including:
  • 2+ years of experience with container tools, including kubectl, Docker, Kubernetes, or Rancher (RKE2)
  • 2+ years of experience with automation tools, including Terraform or Ansible
  • 2+ years of experience with Helm Charts (Helm), Kustomize and/or updating K8s manifests
• Experience with GitOps Practices and Tools (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code environments, including activities around the automated server or network configurations, software deployments, or monitoring and testing
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is preferred)
• A working understanding of code and script (YAML, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Experience with building DotNet and Linux containers
• Experience with Linux administration
• Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps framework - Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
• Ability to employ best practices in an enterprise scale continuous delivery environment and harden production deployments
• The ability to successfully obtain and maintain a U.S. Suitability/Public Trust Background Clearance

Preferred:

• Demonstrated Agile (scrum) Experience
• Demonstrated experience in Kubernetes hardening or cybersecurity best practices
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Administrator Developer (CKAD)
• AWS Associate level certification
• Knowledgeable about current customer off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies