SR. DEVOPS ENGINEER WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

As a DevOps Engineer, Sr. you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer, Sr. joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA. HOW A DEVOPS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT 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. • Build, test, and maintain custom Helm Charts using Gitlab and ArgoCD • Build, test, and maintain custom OpenShift Operators • Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to create complex ci-templates and custom runners. • Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain Container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation • Create FIPS compliant and hardened custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images. • Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks • Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health • Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Required Skills: • 8+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience • 3+ years of Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift • 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms • Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes • 3+ years of experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images • 3+ years of experience using Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from Gitlab • Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds • Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed • 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 to on prem/data center infrastructure • Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis • Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly Desired • Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk • Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or API's • Go programming language experience ? Location: On Customer Site ?US Citizenship Required