DevOps Engineer, Clearance Required – TS/SCI w/Polygraph
Please note, this position requires all candidates to currently possess an active Top-Secret SCI Clearance with a Polygraph. This position is not an opportunity to be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance.
The Work:
This contract supports compliance solutions and integration, as well as development and sustainment of analytic services and hosting platforms to sustain analytics, threads, and services to enable the agency and tactical customers' missions and goals throughout the extended enterprise.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A current Top-Secret/SCI government security clearance with polygraph is required.
- Fluent with Git
- Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments ( RHEL 6/7/8, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS)
- Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency and performance.
- 5+ years working in an Agile dev environment (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master degree in relevant field)
- Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, etc.) Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch
- Knowledge of security practices networking protocols, firewalls PCI compliance, etc.
- 5+ years of system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read the code and understand the coding logic to assist in troubleshooting
- 5+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment
- Familiarity with software development life cycle models agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
- Fluent skills in object oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language such as Ruby C C++, GO Python, or Java.
- Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
- Ability to successfully work with customers, developers, testing, project management and support staff.
- Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills.
- Clarity and precision in verbal and written communications
Bonus Points:
- Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo, Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred.
- Experience with Kibana
As a DevOps Engineer, You Will:
- Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
- Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production
- Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
- Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
- Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
- Set-up up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
- Maintain / upgrade/ patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence/ Jira)
- Assist in design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployments
- Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements
- Identify processes and capabilities that can be stream lined and automated
- Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements
- Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed , stored, or accessed
- Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby Perl, and Java
- Experience with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies.
- Ability to have a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture
- Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
Work Site: Greater Ft. Meade, MD area.
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At Sensible Solutions and Technologies, Inc. (SSATI), we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our services, and our community. SSATI is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
