Devops Engineer

Knight Federal Solutions is a trusted provider to industry leading prime contractors, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.  We have established a company culture that supports our employees, their families and the communities in which they live and work. When you join our team you belong to a group of people that work hard, strive for greatness and care about people.

Our hard work is evident in everything we do.  Whether it be supporting large government programs in the areas of Simulation and Training, Information Technology, Intelligence or Engineering we always strive to be the best.  It is for this reason that we have been recognized as a World Class Team Supplier by Northrop Grumman and were also named one of Florida’s fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine. 

As Knight Federal Solutions continues to grow, we look forward to hiring the best and the brightest to join us in our success!

Role Responsibilities:

• Production environment hands-on experience with core AWS technologies (EC2, VPC, EBS, ALB, RDS, S3, EKS, ECR etc) or similar cloud technologies.

• Previous experience and full understanding of all of the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. This includes planning and defining concepts to full production deployment.

• Deploy, configure, and operationalize resilient, highly available production grade k8s clusters.

• Develop IaC for cluster orchestration and application deployment using a variety of tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Helm, Kustomize, GitLab, etc.

• Work with a variety of cloud native tools to add capabilities and secure the platform.

• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across all layers of the technology stack.

• Strong communication skills in both written and oral format.

Basic Requirements:

• 3 + years of experience with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) or CentOS administration.

• 3+ years of experience with AWS cloud technologies and CLI.

• Have a strong understanding and experience with automation tools.

• Worked with Kubernetes and/or other containerization.

• Experience troubleshooting DNS, VPN, HTTPS, and networking configurations.

• Fluency with Bash, Ansible and other scripting and automation technologies.

• Possession or ability to obtain 8570 IAT Level II Compliant Certification.

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor's in computer science or similar field.

• Experience with DevSecOps tools and concepts such as Static Code Analysis, image scanning, GitLab/Jenkins, Nexus, ArgoCD.

• RedHat and / or AWS Certifications

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and other container technologies

• Familiarity with AWS capabilities and offerings

• Experience with National Security systems and Air Gapped Environments

Knight Federal Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other protected classification.