Overview
Junior DevOps Engineer Springfield, VA OR St. Louis, MO

Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government27s mission and our client27s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation27s cyber interests? Join our growing team as a Junior DevOps Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission.

Responsibilities What you get to do every day:

In this role, you'll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers27 operations. As a Jr DevOps Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Architect, build and maintain On-Prem and cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
• Administer production, staging and development environments
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
• Manage operational readiness board 26ndash; present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
• Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On-call support will be required

Qualifications

Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly

Education/Experience:

• 2+ years of experience

Required Skills:

• Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools
• 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 On-Prem infrastructure

What is ideal?

• 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
• Experience using Jira and Confluence
• Intelligence Community Experience preferred

What you can expect from us

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by bcore through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• You27ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• The expected salary range within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $104,000-$119,000. Final compensation is unique to each individual and will be determined based on factors such as experience, education, geographic location, and contractual requirements. This is not a guarantee.
• Benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more.