DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI

DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid) Security Clearance: TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph Our client is currently in search of a talented DevOps Engineer to play a vital role in the design, deployment, and upkeep of a comprehensive containerized microservices architecture. Your responsibilities will extend to technical systems administration, encompassing installation and configuration tasks. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in cultivating a DevOps mindset within the organization, fostering robust cross-functional collaboration across systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams. This position offers an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Responsibilities To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements. Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings Minimum Requirements BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8 years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6 years of experience with Master's degree. Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance Comfortable working in Linux Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc. Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc. Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution Preferred Qualifications Experience with systems at scale Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques Experience on a production/ enterprise system Experience with any of the following technologies: Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS) Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana GPU-based Kubernetes SALT for deployment automation Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience Helm and Helmfile