Cornerstone Defense
DevOps Engineer
Cornerstone Defense, Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States, 20701
Location: Annapolis Junction, MarylandType: ContractJob #3310Title: DevOps EngineerLocation: Annapolis Junction, MD*Clearance:
*Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *Company Overview:Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Dev/Ops positions available ito deploy and sustain platform as a service environment.
Role & Responsibilities: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 processesManage time for assigned tasks to ensure progression/status updates and provide Level of Effort (LOE) forecasting with stakeholdersUnderstand and assist with documenting implementation requirements definition fulfillment, prior to execution of ticketEnsure industry and security best practices across the team are known, in accordance with SSP and ISSO(s) and implementedResearch and study trends with relevant tools and technologies from the industry and AgencyParticipate in team code reviews, cross-training, brainstorming, sprint review/demo, sprint planning sessionsCreate and maintain clear and concise implementation documentation and SOPsReport bugs and new feature proposals to the CCBQualifications:Must have an active TS/SCI security clearance with lifestyle and CI polygraph.Must have an active Sec + IAD 2 certificationRequired Technologies & Skillsets:
Familiar with Kubernetes (K8s) Application Development and AdministrationContainerizationSkilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage and interface management, hardening, patching and bash scriptingSkilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and applicationVirtualization/VMwareCloud-Providers (AWS, AZURE or similar)MicroservicesTerraformGoPythonFamiliar with GitLab or similarFamiliar with Helm ChartsStrong communication skills, self starter with the ability to work independently and in a team environment on new features, bug fixes and troubleshootingPreferred Technologies, Skillsets & Certificates:
CKA Certification or Similar (Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer or Certified Kubernetes Security)GitOPSCI/CDUnit TestingIngress/EgressNetworking
*Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *Company Overview:Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Dev/Ops positions available ito deploy and sustain platform as a service environment.
Role & Responsibilities: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 processesManage time for assigned tasks to ensure progression/status updates and provide Level of Effort (LOE) forecasting with stakeholdersUnderstand and assist with documenting implementation requirements definition fulfillment, prior to execution of ticketEnsure industry and security best practices across the team are known, in accordance with SSP and ISSO(s) and implementedResearch and study trends with relevant tools and technologies from the industry and AgencyParticipate in team code reviews, cross-training, brainstorming, sprint review/demo, sprint planning sessionsCreate and maintain clear and concise implementation documentation and SOPsReport bugs and new feature proposals to the CCBQualifications:Must have an active TS/SCI security clearance with lifestyle and CI polygraph.Must have an active Sec + IAD 2 certificationRequired Technologies & Skillsets:
Familiar with Kubernetes (K8s) Application Development and AdministrationContainerizationSkilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage and interface management, hardening, patching and bash scriptingSkilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and applicationVirtualization/VMwareCloud-Providers (AWS, AZURE or similar)MicroservicesTerraformGoPythonFamiliar with GitLab or similarFamiliar with Helm ChartsStrong communication skills, self starter with the ability to work independently and in a team environment on new features, bug fixes and troubleshootingPreferred Technologies, Skillsets & Certificates:
CKA Certification or Similar (Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer or Certified Kubernetes Security)GitOPSCI/CDUnit TestingIngress/EgressNetworking