Sr. DevOps Engineer
Must be eligible for a federal security clearance (US Citizen)
Overview:
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will focus on partnering with research organizations to enable research excellence and delivery for our clients! We continue to grow and mature our tech stack and capabilities and the ability to document, collaborate and help mentor new team members to our team is important in maintaining our consistency and velocity of delivery!
Our Stack and Workflow
Work planning and documentation - Jira/Confluence
- Code repository, CI/CD - GitLab and GitHub
- Configuration and Package Management – Terraform, Ansible and Conda
- Cloud Infrastructure - OpenStack
- Container Technologies – Docker, Apptainer
- Container Orchestration - Kubernetes, Rancher
- Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization - Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Fluentd
- Other technologies utilized/supported include, but aren’t limited to Rook/Ceph, Selenium, nginx, Guard, and Checkmarx depending on supported program needs
Major Duties/Responsibilities:
- Gathering user requirements, designing, and developing strategic solutions for the development and deployment of key applications developed by researchers
- Understanding and evaluating existing development and deployment technologies in order to identify potential strategies for improving efficiency and long-term maintainability
- Evaluating and documenting new tools to pitch to the rest of the team, with an eye toward improved service and delivery.
- Diagnose and debug customer workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment procedures in order to implement solutions to optimize performance and scalability both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Work with researchers and developers to configure complex pipelines to streamline multiple code repositories for automated deployments/upgrades, and work with others across the organization to ensure that we are delivering secure solutions in compliance with Internal Operating Procedures.
- Deliver company's mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by encouraging a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.
Basic Qualifications:
- A BS in a technical, scientific, business, or related field of study and a minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years of relevant professional experience is required for consideration. An overall combination of equivalent education and experience may be considered.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience managing UNIX/Linux Systems.
- At least one (1) year of experience utilizing Terraform and Ansible
- Experience with configuring and deploying OpenStack instances
- Experience utilizing configuration management and automation tools in GitLab for CI/CD
- Moderate fluency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, Go or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experiencing building and managing Kubernetes infrastructure in a production environment.
- Experience managing virtual infrastructure on public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
- Strong knowledge of multiple operating systems.
- Experience with performance and diagnostic tools for benchmarking, analysis and tuning of systems, networking, and storage.
- Previous experience working in a government, scientific, or other highly technical environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills suitable for user support and ability to work well with peers.
- Demonstrated ability to balance complex research and security requirements.
- Technical documentation skills, including ability to prepare simple documentation web pages.
- RHSA, VCP, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
