DevOps Engineer, Sr. | TS/SCI

What you will be working on (Job Description):

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a DevOps Engineer, Sr. at Blackspoke. 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.  Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer, Sr. joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team the DevOps Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment.

The Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.

• 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 the operation of systems.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Maintain the status of operations at all times: perform after-action reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solutions 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 and present at weekly meetings to determine if development services are ready for automation.
• Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Align with the customer's strategies and utilize the customer’s enterprise DevSecOps pipeline.
• Provide on-call support when required.

What you will bring to us (Required Skills):

• 8+ years of experience and a 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 (i.e., Kibana, Grafana, Nagios).

Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift).

Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes.

Knowledge of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes.

Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices.

Proficiency in Python, Bash, and Shell scripting.

Knowledge of network technologies, infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with deploying to on-prem/data center infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for daily use.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly.

Would be nice if you bring the following (Highly Desired):

• Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes-based environment using Gitlab and Helm.
• Knowledge of access management and security groups (i.e., IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.).
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing.

What you will get:

• The opportunity to work on high-impact projects that contribute to national security.
• A collaborative team environment that values innovation and efficiency.
• A competitive benefits package that underscores our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent.

Location: Cortex - St. Louis, MO / Patriot Ridge - Springfield, VA

US Citizenship Required with Active Clearance.