DevOps Engineer

Overview

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. Our mission spans four critical national security areas: nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense, empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow.

With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

Job Description

We have an opening for a Development Operations (Dev Ops) Engineer. You will develop and support a robust, scalable, and operational infrastructure at the intersection of High-Performance Computing (HPC), on-prem cloud native technologies, and AI/ML software stacks to support, develop, and deploy collaboration tools and services for users of LLNL’s high-performance computers. You will work independently, applying software engineering and Dev Ops skills on a variety of hardware platforms to enable state-of-the-art collaboration and productivity tools for developers and scientists located world-wide.

This position is in the Livermore Computing Division within the Computing Directorate. The role may be filled at SES.
1 or SES.
2 level depending on qualifications, with additional responsibilities at the higher level.

• Build, deploy, support, and enhance LLNL containerized applications and software stacks deployed in LC Open Shift/Kubernetes clusters.
• Identify issues and propose solutions to technical problems across projects to improve Dev Ops design and implementation practices.
• Perform software engineering using established development practices, tools, and processes for robust software quality, including testing, configuration management, change management, and documentation.
• Collaborate with other technical teams to ensure solutions are secure and integrated with other services.
• Engage directly with HPC customers to provide timely, customer-focused support and guidance.
• Assist with managing Open Shift/Kubernetes container orchestration infrastructure in Linux to meet complex operational, development, and security requirements.
• Investigate and deploy infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and logging tools for the Dev Ops infrastructure.
• Support and improve automated deployments of infrastructure services and applications with high availability and zero-downtime update principles.
• Work with users and LC/LLNL security on on-premises and third-party cloud-based AI offerings to determine suitability and security alignment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Implement automation tools to deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain cluster environments within container orchestration environments.
• Design, implement and manage build and release pipelines.
• Extend Kubernetes to simplify researchers’ usage and operations.
• Provide solutions to moderately complex problems involving identifiable factors.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Familiarity with deploying web applications and/or micro-services in a containerized environment (e.g., Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Open Shift).
• Experience with Python, Bash, JavaScript, or similar scripting languages.
• Familiarity with software testing and implementing Continuous Integration pipelines.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team environment and work independently as needed.
• Experience creating CI pipelines that automate builds, tests, workflows, tasks or other processes.
• Fundamental knowledge of the Git version control system (push/pull, rebase, cherry-pick, branching).
• Experience integrating SSL/TLS certificates within applications and services according to security policy.
• Ability to apply innovative approaches and new technologies to defined tasks and projects.
• Ability to set priorities and…