DevOps Engineer Sr | TS/SCI

Senior DevOps Engineer

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Senior 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.

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

What you will be working on:
As the Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

• 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.
• Build, test, and maintain custom Helm Charts using GitLab and ArgoCD.
• Build, test, and maintain custom OpenShift Operators.
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using GitLab CI/CD pipelines to create complex CI-templates and custom runners.
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
• Create FIPS-compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of designs/configurations ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health.
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validate completion.

What you will bring to us (Must):

• 8+ years 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 Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift.
• 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes.
• 3+ years of experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images.
• 3+ years of experience using Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from GitLab.
• Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds.
• Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed.
• 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 custom operators with the operator-sdk.
• Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or APIs.
• Go programming language experience.

What you will get:

• Joining a team of technology experts and partners in the same mission.
• A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows.
• Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance.
• A highly competitive benefits package that shows we want to hire the very best.

Location: Cortex - St. Louis MO / Patriot Ridge - Springfield VA
US Citizenship Required