Devops Engineer – Sr
| Company | General Dynamics |
|---|---|
| Location | Springfield, VA, USA, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| Salary | $121680 – $161000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8+ years of related experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
- 3+ years of related systems programming experience
- Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)
- Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
- Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
- Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes
- 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
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
- Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
- Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
- Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly
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 premise and/or 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 for 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 up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
- Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
- Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
- 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
- Aligns to the customer’s strategies
- Utilizes the customer’s enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
- Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest
- On-call support may be required
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
- Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
- Ability to write and use unit and functional testing