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Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Locations US-MO-St. Louis | US-VA-Springfield
Job ID 2024-2243
Type
Regular Full-Time

Overview

Location: St. Louis, MO/Springfield, VA

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. 
 
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Responsibilities

What you get to do every day:
  • Automate and optimize service deployments

  • Integrate with enterprise authentication services

  • Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.

  • Build, test, and maintain custom Helm Charts using Gitlab and ArgoCD

  • Build, test, and maintain custom OpenShift Operators

  • Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using Gitlab CI/CD  pipelines to create complex ci-templates and custom runners.

  • Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain Container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation

  • Create FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images.

  • Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks

  • Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health

  • Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

Qualifications

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 Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
  • 8+ years of experience
  • 3+ years of Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift

  • 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms

  • 3+ years of experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images

  • 3+ years of experience using Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from Gitlab

Required Skills:
  • Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
  • Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds
  • Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed
  • 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

What is ideal?
  • Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk

  • Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or API's
  • Go programming language experience
  • Intelligence Community Experience preferred

What you can expect from us

  • 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.
teKnoluxion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
teKnoluxion does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to team members. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.  Regardless of vaccination status , personnel are required to wear masks while indoors when the CDC COVID-19 Community Level is High.

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