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