DevOps Engineer

Take2 has proven experience bridging the intersection of technology and people solutions. As a proven, trusted provider for our Federal and commercial clients, we provide the right solutions, at the right time through trusted partnerships, customized to solve our client’s unique business challenges. Take2 invests time, discipline, and rigor into our technology and people solutions, as well as utilizes our proprietary People Cloud. Whether we are bridging the gap between IT talent and our customers’ business challenges, Take2 will work as a partner to best resolve client needs.

Take2 is seeking a DevOps Engineer. This position requires a secret and is located onsite in Tampa, FL.

Job Description:

• Interface with stakeholders and capture requirements, plan the execution of technical requirements and provide verbal and written briefs to gov. stakeholders.
• Interface with IA/J6 to provide necessary documentation and artifacts through the RMF process leading to full ATO.
• Assist with deployment and mission command system architecture on AWS & Azure IL5, IL6, and IL7 environments.
• Designing and implementing automation tools and frameworks for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
• Monitoring and managing infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability.
• Assist in architecting universally available, on-prem Kubernetes RKE2 deployment model for mission-critical customers.
• Assist in streamlining deployment automation using Ansible, and other tools.
• Assist with designing, configuring and maintaining infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Write scripts and configurations to automate software testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices.
• Proactively monitor build and deploy pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors.
• Automated infrastructure and cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Work with engineering teams to create CI/CD pipelines for their applications and ensure code is properly integrated into the CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure and support development environments for consistent development processes across devices.
• Please participate in the design of the version control system and configure it to align with the software development life cycle (SDLC) and security policies and best practices.
• Automate security testing and vulnerability scanning and integrate it into the development process.
• Remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
• Assist with training users on both new and existing functionality.
• Informally mentor other staff in DevOps concepts and processes.
• Collaborate with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and or reduce costs.
• Leverage multivendor APIs and write scripts to create solutions to improve existing processes.
• Engage internal departments and third-party vendors for security and infrastructure support and best practices.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications.
• Deploy and maintain MinIO in distributed mode. This enables data to be stored across multiple nodes, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Implement multiple control-plane nodes with a load balancer in front to distribute the traffic and ensure high availability.
• Ensure a multi-node setup for GitOps tools and store configurations redundantly across nodes.
• Regular backups of configurations are essential.
• Utilize Patroni / Spilo / Scalyr for automating failover to a replica in case the primary node fails.
• Regular backups and real-time replication should also be implemented.
• Ensuring uptime, managing failovers, and scaling as needed.
• Update containers baseline, and apply systems patching.
• Responsible for the overall functionality and maintenance of the HA cluster
• Work closely with the DEVSECOP team to coordinate the deployment of updates and other security patches.

CLEARANCE:

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Take2 is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.