- Requisition ID: 5433
- Standard Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
- Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
- Location: Bethesda, MD
- Work Type: On-Site
- Shift: First
- Referral Eligibility: Eligible
- U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes
Position SummaryBase-2 Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform Modernization program in Bethesda, Maryland. This role supports the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full-stack containerized microservices architecture and contributes to DevOps, systems administration, installation, configuration, and production support activities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging.
- Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to support faster development, quicker error detection, and resilient deployments.
- Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure, including physical and virtualized environments.
- Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
- Collaborate with Systems Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements.
- Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation, diagrams, and models in coordination with Systems Engineering and Architecture team members.
- Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and other meetings.
Required Qualifications- Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of ten years of experience in the category field.
- Possess at least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification, such as CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, CISSP, or CISSP Associate.
- Ability to obtain Privileged User Account certification per DoD 8570 policy.
- Experience with containers and container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes environments, including Ingress/Gateway API, Helm chart design/build, pod disruption budgets, affinity/anti-affinity rules, external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, and eck/Elasticsearch.
- Experience developing GitLab pipelines, including integration of GitLab CI/CD components, Code Quality reports, and Code Coverage/Test reports.
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
- Knowledge of sysctls for Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with FApolicyd and SELinux.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
- Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with systems at scale.
- Experience or knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques.
- Experience with development or scripting languages and tools, such as Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java.
- Experience supporting a production or enterprise system.
- Experience with Kafka or other message-passing systems, such as AMQP or JMS.
- Experience with Kubernetes monitoring tools, such as Prometheus or Grafana.
- Experience with GPU-based Kubernetes.
- Experience with SALT for deployment automation.
- Experience with Nexus.
Required Education and Experience Equivalency- Bachelors' Degree with 10 years of experience.
- Masters' Degree with 10 years of experience.
- PhD with 10 years of experience.
Required Certifications- At least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification
Required Security Clearance- Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
Pay & Benefit HighlightsCompensation- Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
- Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
- Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).
Health- 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
- Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
- 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
- 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
Income Protection- 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
- 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
- 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
- 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.
Retirement- 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.
Leave- Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
- 11 paid floating holidays.
Work-Life Balance- Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).
