DevOps Engineer

Xcelerate Solutions

Bethesda, MD

Full Time

Senior

about 1 month ago

Job Description

About the Role

Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration. You will participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging
Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements
Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements
Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings

Requirements

BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field
6+ years of experience with Master's degree
Must have an active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
Knowledgeable in navigating Linux OS
Experienced with container / container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes
Skilled with CI/CD pipeline orchestration and the use of Gitlab
Comfortable with Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana
Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

Nice to Have

Experience with systems at scale
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Experience on a production/ enterprise system
Experience with Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
GPU-based Kubernetes
SALT for deployment automation
Helm and Helmfile
Nexus