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DevOps Engineer
Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid)
Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
Roles and Responsibility:
To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging
Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements
Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings
Qualifications:
BS in Engineering, computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree.
Comfortable working in Linux
Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution
You will wow us even more if you have some of these:
Experience with systems at scale
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
Experience on a production/ enterprise system
Experience with any of the following technologies:
Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
GPU-based Kubernetes
SALT for deployment automation
Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience