Springfield, VA - Salary 170k - 185k (Requires TS/SCI Poly)

Job Brief

We are looking for highly energetic, TS-SCI cleared, IT professionals who are interested in joining our seasoned team of technologists. We are focused on driving significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise-wide IT operations and performing routine O&M for an IC agency. The program itself supports a broad range of IT enterprise services for end-users around the globe, with smaller project teams that focus on particular areas (i.e. Platform as a Service, Application Services, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, API Management, etc.). We are looking for hands-on professionals, team players, and engaged individuals who enjoy keeping up with the latest tech stacks and technology trends. We have positions open at all levels and in multiple geographies.

Basic Qualifications:

• TS/SCI clearance w/ CI poly
• You must meet one of the below combinations of education and RELEVANT experience to be considered:

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Establish and improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems
• Build, test, and maintain custom Helm Charts using GitLab and ArgoCD
• Build, test, and maintain custom OpenShift Operators
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using GitLab CI/CD pipelines to create complex ci-templates and custom runners
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain Container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
• Create FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images
• Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
• Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in a relevant field
• 3+ years of Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift
• 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
• 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
• 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
• Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Desired Qualifications and Skills:

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

Desired Certifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

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