Junior DevOps Engineer

Active Ts/sci Security Clearance Required

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a DevOps Engineer at D2 Tech Services. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

As a DevOps Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

How a DevOps Engineer will make an Impact

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 customers’ operations. As a 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 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 – 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

• Participate in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings

• On-call support will be required

Required Skills:

• 2+ years of relevant experience

• 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

Desired Skills:

• 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

Additional Information

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

• Compensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically $100-$110k. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.

• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Accrued PTO, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and more!

D2 Technical Services is committed to a merit-based recruitment process and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. As a Veteran-Owned Small Business, we particularly welcome applications from veterans who have the requisite skills and experience. Job applicants that are interested in one of our openings and may require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, should contact us to request an accommodation.