Senior DevOps Engineer - teKnoluxion

St. Louis, MO 63110

About the Job

Overview:

Location: Springfield, VA/St. Louis, MO

Clearance: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space.

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Senior DevOps Engineer in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.

Responsibilities:

What you get to do every day:

Supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team the DevOps Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment.
Active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
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.
Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
Administer production, staging and development environments
Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
Aligns to the customer's strategies
Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest
On-call support may be required

Qualifications:

Clearance: Must possess a current and active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph. **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Education/Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
8+ years of experience
8+ years of related systems programming experience

Required Skills:

Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)
Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes
Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
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

What is ideal?

Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
Ability to write and use unit and functional testing
Intelligence Community Experience preferred

What you can expect from us:

Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
Highly competitive benefits package that reflects our objective of employing top industry performers

teKnoluxion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

teKnoluxion does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to team members. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements. Regardless of vaccination status , personnel are required to wear masks while indoors when the CDC COVID-19 Community Level is High.

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