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