Key skills
PythonShellAWSAzureGoogle CloudTerraformKubernetesDockerAnsibleEKSArgoCDFluxRancherPodmanGitLabGitOpsJiraAgileScrumCI/CDSonarQube
About this role
STR is a growing technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security. The Lead DevOps Engineer will work as part of Agile software teams to design and implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring developer productivity and application performance in various deployment environments.
Responsibilities:
- Support cloud (e.g., AWS) toolsets in unclassified environments
- Configure and maintain multiple CI/CD environments at different classification levels, focusing on developer productivity, application performance, security monitoring, and alerting
- Liaison with corporate IT to ensure team infrastructure toolsets are configured, maintained, reliable, and in compliance with Department of Defense standards
- Coaching team members on DevOps best practices while continuously helping to improve processes
Requirements:
- Active TS/SCI Security Clearance, for which U.S citizenship is required by the U.S government
- BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field with 5-7+ years of relevant experience
- Experience with all relevant technologies including:
- CI/CD tools (Gitlab) and pipeline automation
- Cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and automated provisioning tools (such as Ansible or Chef)
- Containerization technologies such as Docker and Podman
- Kubernetes management solutions such as EKS and Rancher
- Experience deploying, and monitoring Kubernetes clusters and pod configurations
- Basic knowledge of Linux System Administration
- Knowledge of Python and Linux Shell
- Knowledge of Cyber Security fundamentals
- Organized, detail-oriented, and with an ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Demonstrated experience as an effective communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field
- Experience in:
- Full web-service stack, including databases, logging, and monitoring
- Project tracking tools such as Jira
- Designing, deploying, and monitoring Kubernetes clusters
- GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux
- Deploying and maintaining artifact repositories (such as Nexus, Artifactory)
- Deploying and configuring static and dynamic code analysis tools (such as SonarQube, Coverity)
- Platforms such as ArgoCD, Flux or TerraForm
- Leading teams in an Agile/SCRUM software development process
- Current Security+ Certification