DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Compensation & Benefits:

Estimated Starting Salary Range for DevOps Engineer: Pay commensurate with experience. $120,000- $130,000

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided.  Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Essential Functions & Duties: 

• Performing system administration tasks (For example: user management, security configuration, and general maintenance). 

• Monitoring system performance, identifying and resolving issues to ensure high availability. 

• Automating the provisioning and configuration of containerized applications, ensuring consistent and efficient deployments. 

• Vulnerability management via proactive and appropriately prioritized configuration updates and application upgrades. 

• Linux scripting and running command line functions. 

• Collaborating with teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and document procedures. 

• Web application deployments using reverse proxies, Apache Tomcat applications, and MYSQL/PostgreSQL databases. 

Skills, Qualifications and Certifications of Best Candidates: 

• 2+ years of experience with deploying, managing, monitoring, and upgrading resources in AWS. 

• Experience using Terraform/OpenTofu for Infrastructure as Code. 

• Demonstrable containerization management experience (Kubernetes/Helm/Docker/ECS/Podman) 

• Experience using configuration management tools such as Salt or Ansible. 

• Demonstrable troubleshooting skills. 

• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

• Atlassian suite system administration (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Crowd)

• Experience using centralized logging such as Splunk and CloudWatch. 

• Experience using/administering artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Nexus. 

• Experience using monitoring and performance analytics tools such as Datadog or New Relic. 

• Experience in managing SQL databases (Example: PostgreSQL, MYSQL). 

Desirable Additional Skills: 

• Experience with optimizing both SQL queries and database systems, preferably PostgreSQL. 

• Experience with developer code quality and static analysis tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Veracode. 

• Any relevant certifications would be an added advantage. 

• Experience creating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Bamboo and GitHub Actions. 

• Experience and advanced knowledge of using Git. 

Citizenship or Work Authorization Required:  

• Ability to attain Federal Government Position of Trust.
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Must pass a background investigation.

Required Education, certification & Experience: 

• A BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science, from an ABET accredited or CAE designated institution fulfills the educational requirement. 
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  Searchable Titles

• Platform Engineer

• DevOps Engineer

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• Cloud Platform Engineer

• Atlassian Administrator

Searchable Keywords

• Kubernetes

• Terraform

• AWS

• Atlassian (Jira / Confluence / Bitbucket)

• CI/CD Pipelines

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