DevOps Engineer

Prescient Edge is seeking aDevOps Engineerto support a Federal Government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

Benefits:

AtPrescientEdge we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyones success. To that end we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical vision dental and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities including on-the-job training tuition reimbursement and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected supported and engaged.

Description:

• Shall create and maintain environment-specific Kubernetes configuration packages (e.g. Helm values files YAML manifests) that incorporate STIG-aligned hardening and RBAC policy enforcement per IL environment.
• Implement and manage secrets injection strategies using FedRAMP-compliant tools (e.g. AWS Secrets Manager Azure Key Vault) ensuring compatibility with automated deployment pipelines.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines to enable secure automated deployment and rollback of ArcGIS components and related services supporting ongoing agility and compliance across environments.
• Coordinate with Kubernetes and Data Layer Engineers to ensure version control pipeline integrity and integration testing for all containerized services deployed under WO-003.
• Coordinate with the WO-009 infrastructure team to provide estimated cloud resource usage profiles for Kubernetes-based deployments in IL2 IL4 and IL5 environments.
• Supply container and workload specifications to the WO-009 infrastructure team to support provisioning tagging and prepay or reservation planning
• Implement resource tagging in alignment with program-wide cloud governance policy and reconcile actual usage against estimates provided by WO-009.
• Support cost optimization efforts led by WO-009 by adjusting workloads and scaling strategies in response to performance and utilization feedback.

Experience:

• Possess the knowledge and capability to design implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines automate infrastructure management and ensure scalable deployments across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Proficient in container orchestration (Kubernetes Docker) infrastructure as code (Terraform Ansible) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Azure DevOps or AWS CodePipeline).
• Strong understanding of cloud environments (AWS Azure GCP) security best practices and monitoring/logging solutions (Prometheus Grafana ELK stack) is required.
• Experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters automating cloud infrastructure and implementing secure high-availability CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with microservices architecture service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd) and observability tools is required.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field or five (5) years of equivalent experience in DevOps engineering.
• Desirable but not required certifications include Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.

Security clearance:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a clearance.

Location:

• Doral Florida. (USSOUTHCOM Headquarters)