DevOps Engineer, Sr | TS/SCI

What you will be working on (Job Description):

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a DevOps Engineer 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.

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.

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-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-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—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.
• Align with the customer's strategies.
• Utilize the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline.
• Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest.
• On-call support may be required.

What you will bring to us (Required Skills):

• 8+ years and 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 using 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.
• 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.

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.
• Understanding 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:

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Opportunities for career development and advancement.
• A collaborative and innovative work environment.

Location: Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO
US Citizenship Required with Active Security Clearance.