DevOps / Kubernetes Engineer (ORA-2771-06.080124)

CLEARANCE:  TS/SCI with Polygraphs are required

POSITION:  DevOps / Kubernetes Engineer

REQUISITION:  ORA-2771-06.080124

LOCATION:  Ft. Meade, Maryland

JOB DESCRIPTION:

 Dev/Ops positions available in support of Cloud Computing Solutions to deploy and sustain platform as a service environment.

JOB DUTIES: 

Design, development and maintain Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, including but not limited to:

• Produce and maintain functional Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code according to consumer needs based on the ticket requirements (such as: solutions for Security/Policy & Network, Monitoring & Logging, Storage, CI/CD Pipelines, Service Mesh and Backup & Restore)

• Collaborate with stakeholders, development and product teams to understand operational product requirements, feature specifications, Architecture, CM and Testing processes

• Manage time for assigned tasks to ensure progression/status updates and provide Level of Effort (LOE) forecasting with stakeholders

• Understand and assist with documenting implementation requirements definition fulfillment, prior to execution of ticket

• Ensure industry and security best practices across the team are known, in accordance with SSP and ISSO(s) and implemented

• Research and study trends with relevant tools and technologies from the industry and Agency

• Participate in team code reviews, cross-training, brainstorming, sprint review/demo, sprint planning sessions

• Create and maintain clear and concise implementation documentation and SOPs

• Report bugs and new feature proposals to the CCB

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES: 

• Familiar with Kubernetes (K8s) Application Development and Administration

• Containerization

• Skilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage and interface management, hardening, patching and bash scripting

• Skilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and application

• Virtualization/VMware

• Cloud-Providers (AWS, AZURE or similar)

• Microservices

• Terraform

• Go

• Python

• Familiar with GitLab or similar

• Familiar with Helm Charts

• Strong communication skills, self starter with the ability to work independently and in a team environment on new features, bug fixes and troubleshooting

 

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  QUALIFICATIONS

   CERTIFICATION:   any IAT, Level 2 Certification

   EDUCATION + EXPERIENCE:   

   • 7 to 10 years of work experience is needed