Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Springfield, VA/St.Louis, MO

Security Clearance Required:  Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting.  Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space. 

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Senior DevOps Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment?  Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the Yorktown contract at NGA.

What you get to do every day:

• Designs and defines the DevSecOps architecture for new or existing IT systems. Has the ability to both write clean, working code and has commanding knowledge of traditional operations tasks. Coordinates system development to include design, modeling, security, integration, and formal testing. Manages and documents system configurations. Assists with deployment of new product features.

• Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications
• Take source code, dependencies to perform application builds
• Perform automated testing and security scans
• Deploy to multiple environments (Dev, Staging, Operations)
• Responsible for Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
• Author helm charts to deploy resources to OpenShift
• Manage and document system security, by performing software updates in response to scan findings, document system, architecture to demonstrate security compliance

   

Security Clearance Required:  Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Education/Experience:

• Requires Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or any related field/major, or 3 additional years of experience in information technology.
• 5-8 years of experience

Required Skills:

• Proficiency with Linux operating systems
• Experience with Git
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)
• Uses Service+ and Jira to track questions and answers as well as enter orders.
• Ability to manage networking for web applications by understanding PCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, with ideal knowledge of AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (one or more of Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Knowledgeable of including containerization, monitoring & logging, and network & security
• Experience deploying and managing databases, interacting with databases via SQL and ORMs
• Comfortable using Python and BASH to create systems tooling
• Provides incident resolution to customers with hardware, software, and application problems. Includes both customer telephone support as well as electronically submitted requests
• Ability to contribute code updates/tweaks to existing code repositories
• Experience with software system design, able to create application architecture for new applications
• Experience with integrating security components with applications and databases

• Familiarity with Configuration Management and Request for Change process for review and assessment
• Experience with delivery of an integrated solution using Agile software delivery techniques
• Technical certification Network +, Security +, Oracle or specializing in Software Development, or Cloud Computing.
• Experience in System Engineering and project/program management.
• Knowledge and/or experience with NGA enterprise products.
• Intelligence Community Experience preferred

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.