Key skills
SQLAnalyticsAWSTerraformKubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsAnsibleECSHelmBambooPodmanCloudWatchPostgreSQLMySQLDatadogNew RelicSplunkGitGitHubBitbucketAtlassianJiraConfluenceCI/CDCollaborationSonarQubeCheckmarx
About this role
Cherokee Nation is seeking a DevOps Engineer to enhance their Information Technology Services. The role involves performing system administration tasks, monitoring system performance, automating deployments, and collaborating with teams to ensure efficient operations.
Responsibilities:
- Performing system administration tasks (For example: user management, security configuration, and general maintenance)
- Monitoring system performance, identifying and resolving issues to ensure high availability
- Automating the provisioning and configuration of containerized applications, ensuring consistent and efficient deployments
- Vulnerability management via proactive and appropriately prioritized configuration updates and application upgrades
- Linux scripting and running command line functions
- Collaborating with teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and document procedures
- Web application deployments using reverse proxies, Apache Tomcat applications, and MYSQL/PostgreSQL databases
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience with deploying, managing, monitoring, and upgrading resources in AWS
- Experience using Terraform/OpenTofu for Infrastructure as Code
- Demonstrable containerization management experience (Kubernetes/Helm/Docker/ECS/Podman)
- Experience using configuration management tools such as Salt or Ansible
- Demonstrable troubleshooting skills
- Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Atlassian suite system administration (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Crowd)
- Experience using centralized logging such as Splunk and CloudWatch
- Experience using/administering artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Nexus
- Experience using monitoring and performance analytics tools such as Datadog or New Relic
- Experience in managing SQL databases (Example: PostgreSQL, MYSQL)
- Ability to attain Federal Government Position of Trust
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Must pass a background investigation
- A BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science, from an ABET accredited or CAE designated institution fulfills the educational requirement
- Experience with optimizing both SQL queries and database systems, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience with developer code quality and static analysis tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Veracode
- Any relevant certifications would be an added advantage
- Experience creating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Bamboo and GitHub Actions
- Experience and advanced knowledge of using Git