DevOps Engineer - Citizen

Title: DevOps Engineer

Clearance: US citizenship is required to obtain clearance

Location: Sterling, VA(Onsite attendance every Wednesday is mandatory.)

Interview process: 2 virtual + 1 onsite is a must

Design & Development

• Maintain CI/CD software delivery pipelines & tools for an enterprise scale system with a large developer base
• Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code artifacts
• Maintain container-based application solutions
• Write and run ad-hoc scripts (using Bash, Python etc.) to automate DevOps processes
• Work with development teams to troubleshoot specific issues by recreating tests, validating configuration, etc.
• Provide deployment support by deploying applications and microservices in cloud environments.

Operations

• Maintain, monitor, and help improve the performance and availability of the 24x7 production environment including networks, servers, databases, etc.
• Administer network monitoring system, alerting, log management, and other IT systems
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide hands-on support during emergencies, outages, and service transitions
• Manage operational maintenance such as OS patches, security vulnerabilities etc. to ensure healthy status of various prod and non-prod environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially with Jenkins using Groovy
• Hands-on experience with container-based technologies, especially Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, OpenShift
• Hands-on experience with AWS managed services (VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS), including monitoring and analytics tools such as AWS CloudWatch, NewRelic
• Familiarity with configuration management using Chef, Puppet or equivalent
• Proficient scripting skills (Bash, Perl, Python)
• Solid understanding of microservice concepts
• Experience with code management systems (Git, Subversion)
• Experience maintaining Java/Node web applica

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $100,000.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sterling, VA 20166