Senior DevOps Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of product deployments, ensuring the seamless integration and optimization of software solutions in on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Automating IaC to manage virtual machines and deploy containers, services, and other infrastructure; applying your expertise to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
• Working with platform developers, other DevOps teammates, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• Software deployments to commercial and, later, unclassified, CUI, and classified Department of Defense (DOD) networks
• Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults
• Monitoring, automating, and improving software reliability, performance, and availability for various projects
• Acting as a liaison between platform developers and customer-facing teams, taking on operational tasks to ensure the efficient functioning of Striveworks’ solutions
• Providing guidance and leadership to junior DevOps team members
• Contributing to the success of mission-critical systems within national security and commercial clients
• Wearing multiple hats and stepping into vacuums where improvements are needed
• Exploring new technologies and solutions

Requirements:

• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Python and/or Golang programming, or other general purpose programming languages
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Microservice deployment in Kubernetes
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack)
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• The ability to work cross functionally to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• The ability to respond professionally and competently to incident reports and triage critical system faults
• Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
• Due to the nature of this role, candidates must have US citizenship
• Experience with US federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and ICD 503
• Experience with software deployments to on-premises and cloud-based unclassified, CUI, and classified networks within the DOD
• Experience with DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD for the administration and deployment of GPU-enabled servers
• Experience deploying or maintaining Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects
• Experience with network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native applications and services in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited impact (DDIL) environments