DevOps Engineer

Founded in 1999 in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Cadre5 provides innovative technical solutions to our customers locally and nationally. Our Cadre5 Lab Partners division has partnered with the Dev Ops Engineering Team within the Research IT Infrastructure group of the Research Computing Support Division of the Information Technology Services Directorate (ITSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to recruit a qualified Dev Ops Engineer.

ORNL delivers scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs needed to realize solutions in energy and national security and provides economic benefit to the nation. This premier research institution located near Knoxville in Oak Ridge, TN, addresses national needs through impactful research and world‑leading research centers.

This is a full‑time, permanent position that follows a hybrid/onsite working arrangement in Oak Ridge, TN.

• Working with highly talented team members
• Excellent medical insurance, including employer‑paid benefits

Dev Ops Engineering facilitates the delivery, operation, and monitoring of developed applications for R&D projects. The team operates within an Agile Scrum workflow and works with scientific researchers to provide automation solutions. The success is measured by the additional capabilities, cost savings, and optimizations the team provide to their research partners. To achieve this, they are growing the team and offering new capabilities.

The team’s goal is to allow researchers to focus on their projects rather than IT concerns.

• Directly collaborate with research and operations teams to determine needs, optimise solutions, and maintain systems to support application development and delivery.
• Provide support for continuous integration and delivery, configuration management, and release management throughout the SDLC.
• Coordinate with the team to identify, track and address priorities, dependencies, and risks associated with releases, while ensuring alignment with proper processes.
• Diagnose and debug customer workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment procedures to implement solutions to optimise performance and scalability both on‑premises and in the cloud.
• Work with researchers and developers to configure complex pipelines to streamline multiple code repositories for automated deployments/upgrades, and work with others across the organization to ensure that we are delivering secure solutions in compliance with Internal Operating Procedures.

• Work planning and documentation - Jira/Confluence.
• Code repository, CI/CD – Git Lab.
• Configuration and Package Management – Helm, Ansible, Spack.
• Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization - Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch.
• Other leveraged technologies include, but aren’t limited to Rook/Ceph, Selenium, nginx, Guard, and Checkmarx depending on program needs.

• A BS in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, science, business, or a related field of study and five (5) to seven (7) years of aligned professional experience is required for consideration. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Three (3) years of proven ability leading software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
• Experience using configuration management and automation tools including Git, Jenkins, Ansible, or other CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Experience maintaining code management tools such as Git Lab
• Proven experience producing technical documentation.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy "Q" clearance is required. This requires US Citizenship.

• Experience with automated code review tools such Checkmarx.
• Experience building, utilising, and managing containers in a Linux environment.
• Experience with performance and diagnostic tools for benchmarking, analysis and tuning of systems, networking, and storage.
• Previous experience working in a government, scientific, or other highly technical environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills suitable for user support and ability to work well with peers.
• Demonstrated ability to balance sophisticated research and security requirements.

Cadre5 offers excellent pay and benefits, to include full medical, dental, and vision coverage coupled with 401K match, 15 days PTO, and 10 holidays.

Cadre5 is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Cadre5 is an E-Verify Employer.