What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer - All Levels position at Chameleon Consulting Group?
DevOps Engineer
Location : Columbia, MD (Hybrid, secure spaces as needed)
Company Overview
CCG is a technology company focused on equipping customers with the capabilities and support to conduct intelligent and successful cyber operations. We do this by finding the most talented engineers and operators in the country, give them some of the most challenging problems facing the US government, and help them unleash their creativity and problem-solving skills. Excellence is our standard and mission success is our metric.
Role
This position is part of a dynamic team at the forefront of implementing designs to support the next generation of cyber network operations. The role presents unique opportunities, such as regular customer interaction to iterate, streamline, and multiply platform capabilities to meet customer objectives of broad deployment and exceptional flexibility. You will be expected to provide architectural design leadership, systems design leadership, and elegant solutions to pressing operational challenges.
Responsibilities
- Participate and lead design and architecture of cloud-based systems
- Design, develop, and maintain CI / CD pipelines to streamline code deployments
- Deploy, manage, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across development, staging, and production environments
- Monitor and optimize workloads running in Kubernetes, using tools like Helm for package management and deploying microservices at scale
- Create and manage infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- Implement networking policies, load balancing, and service discovery within Kubernetes using tools like Istio Service Mesh
- Implement and monitor system performance, availability, and security using tools like Prometheus and Grafana
- Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS and Azure
- Manage environments and configurations with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Kustomize
- Facilitate delivery and deployment of operational capabilities
- Ensure compliance and implement best practices for infrastructure security, including identity management, encryption, and backup policies
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, processes, and policies
- Promote DevOps practices across teams to enhance agility, reliability, and performance
- Contribute to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives in an Agile environment
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to keep our solutions cutting-edge
- Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, minimizing downtime and ensuring system reliability
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status
