Junior DevOps Engineer

ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Dev Ops Engineer at D2 Tech Services. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

As a Dev Ops Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared Dev Ops Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

How a Dev Ops Engineer will make an Impact

In this role, you’ll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers’ operations. As a Dev Ops Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services.

Specific

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Establish and improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems
• Architect, build, and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
• Administer production, staging and development environments
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor security and system related incidents
• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
• Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
• Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Participate in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On-call support will be required

Required Skills:

• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/Open Shift)
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops and software/application development processes
• Understanding of Git Lab or other Dev Ops/Continuous Integration tools
• Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
• Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills