DevOps Engineer, Sr

Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a DevOps Engineer, Sr on a 10-year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities

• Automates and optimizes service deployments.
• Integrates with enterprise authentication services.
• Establishes and Improves system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
• Architects, builds and maintains on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives.
• Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
• Administers production, staging and development environments.
• Manages and aggregates server logs and monitors for security and system related incidents.
• Monitors and analyzes system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
• Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools.
• Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
• Enforces best practices for security and reliability, and drives security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
• Works with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
• Maintains up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Maintains status of operations at all times, performs after actions reporting on all outages and works with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis.
• Presents findings to management for prioritization and tasking.
• Creates and determines required metrics for dashboards and service health.
• Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validates completion.
• Manages operational readiness board – presents at weekly meetings and determines if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability.
• Tracks and ensures routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Aligns to the customer's strategies.
• Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline.
• Works with other service providers to support areas of common interest.
• On-call support may be required.

Qualifications

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI poly.

Degree and Years of Experience: 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.

• 8 years' experience.

• 3 years of related systems programming experience.

Required Skills:

• Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. 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.

Desired Skills: 

• 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.

About Abile Group, Inc.

Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients. We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise. 

Hiring Statement

Abile is committed to hiring the most qualified and best fit person for the job - always has, always will. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days. 

Please review our current job openings and apply for the positions you believe may be a fit. If you are not an immediate fit, we will also keep your resume in our database for future opportunities.