DEVOPS ENGINEER WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

Overview Location: Columbia, MD. Teleworking has been approved by the COR but yet to be contractually executed at this time. Security Clearance Required: TS-SCI with CI poly **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.** Clearance Required: active Sec + IAD 2 certification teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space. Are you ready to test your abilities as a DevOps Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the National Security Group. Responsibilities What you get to do every day: * Design, development and maintain Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, including but not limited to * Produce and maintain functional Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code according to consumer needs based on the ticket requirements (such as: solutions for Security/Policy & Network, Monitoring & Logging, Storage, CI/CD Pipelines, Service Mesh and Backup & Restore) * Collaborate with stakeholders, development and product teams to understand operational product requirements, feature specifications, Architecture, CM and Testing processes * Manage time for assigned tasks to ensure progression/status updates and provide Level of Effort (LOE) forecasting with stakeholders * Understand and assist with documenting implementation requirements definition fulfillment, prior to execution of ticket * Ensure industry and security best practices across the team are known, in accordance with SSP and ISSO(s) and implemented * Research and study trends with relevant tools and technologies from the industry and Agency * Participate in team code reviews, cross-training, brainstorming, sprint review/demo, sprint planning sessions * Create and maintain clear and concise implementation documentation and SOPs * Report bugs and new feature proposals to the CCB Qualifications Security Clearance Required: TS-SCI with FS poly **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.** Education/Experience: Bachelors Degree or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience Required Skills: * Familiar with Kubernetes (K8s) Application Development and Administration * Containerization * Skilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage and interface management, hardening, patching and bash scripting * Skilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and application * Virtualization/VMware * Cloud-Providers (AWS, AZURE or similar) * Microservices * Terraform * Go * Python * Familiar with GitLab or similar * Familiar with Helm Charts * Strong communication skills, self starter with the ability to work independently and in a team environment on new features, bug fixes and troubleshooting What is ideal? * CKA Certification or Similar (Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer or Certified Kubernetes Security) * GitOPS * CI/CD * Unit Testing * Ingress/Egress * Networking * Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Experience in technical operations at DOD agencies, particularly NGA and DIA What you can expect from us * Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses * You'll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community * Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more! * Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements. teKnoluxion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law. teKnoluxion does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to team members. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements. Regardless of vaccination status , personnel are required to wear masks while indoors when the CDC COVID-19 Community Level is High.