DevOps Engineer - Tampa, FL

Job Description Black Cape DevOps Engineer Locations: Tampa, FL ONSITE: Ability to go ONSITE up to 3 - 5 days per week. Most weeks will be onsite 3 days per week, remote 2 days per week. CLEARANCE: MUST HAVE an Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI Eligibility preferred). ***If you do not have at least a Top Secret security clearance, we likely will NOT contact you. It does take US citizens 6 months – 2 years to attain, so we do need folks that already have one in place.****

DESCRIPTION:

Black Cape is seeking a Mid-level and Senior-level DevOps Engineer with a minimum of 3 years of experience working on production systems. We are seeking self-starters, who can learn new technologies, and can accomplish tasks in the absence of day-to-day product and engineering oversight. The candidate should have solid knowledge and experience in the areas of deploying software to cloud and on-prem environments, Continuous Integration/Deployment/Monitoring (CI/CD), containerization, microservice environments, and experience with provisioning tools. This position will require leading internal DevSecOps efforts by implementing DevOps and Security best practices, creating maintainable workflows, applying automations where possible, and coordinating deployment across multiple projects. Additionally, this position will require the utilization of and integration with a government owned and managed Software Factory. Candidates must be comfortable actively communicating with government personnel and be available for planned but often ad hoc deployments for high priority demonstrations to government leaders. Candidates should be able to satisfy the below requirements, but also take an active role in articulating and delivering a technical vision. The ideal candidates will have the ability to communicate advantages and disadvantages of each technology and work collaboratively to answer a larger technical vision with the appropriate technology. This Teammate will be expected to discuss the technologies below (to the best of their ability) and speak to their experience fielding, maintaining, or navigating technology projects with those technologies. Operate and maintain a mission-critical cloud based system in multiple customer environments Coordinate and effectively communicate with government personnel in order to integrate and utilize their Software Factory Deploy the latest code and security updates to cloud-based systems Make system changes to ensure all configurations work in a clustered deployment environment Provide recommendations and a pathway on how to scale each component of a given technology, e.g., how to scale processing and storage across a complex technology product Support the engineering team in benchmarking components of the system Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Must have Top Secret with SCI eligibility and ability to get Privileged User Access (PUA) on customer systems Ability to go onsite up to 5 days a week to customer sites (majority of weeks - up to 3 days per week) Advanced knowledge and experience with Docker and Containerization Experience with deploying to container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, and Docker Swarm Experience with Python and bash scripting, Linux command line general functions to automate tasks Experience with Gitlab, Jenkins, Bamboo or other CI/CD tools for automating deployments Experience with software provisioning tools such as Ansible or Salt stack Experience operating and maintaining systems deployed to Linux-based environments, in particular Redhat (RHEL would be great too!) CompTIA Security+ (very highly desired or willing to get certification) Experience with cloud environments including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform - preference for AWS the most (AWS certifications considered extra credit) Experience working in classified environments; Awareness of technical limitations within those systems and environments Strong communication skills and the ability to work on small teams to accomplish mission goals Familiarity and experience negotiating complex accreditation and security requirements Strong preference to candidates with a demonstrated experience of the accreditation and RMF process Highly Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Experience working with streaming data and automation systems such as Kafka, NiFi, RabbitMQ, or similar Experience working with S3 compliant data stores (AWS S3, Azure Blob, MinIO) Experience working with document storage solutions (Elasticsearch, Mongo) Experience with designing highly scalable, fail‑safe, cloud native systems to support cloud native systems with data processing pipelines Certificates such as Security+, CISSP, and AWS certifications Great Benefits: Competitive Salary | 401K | Generous Paid Time Off | Medical | Profit Sharing | and MORE! #J-18808-Ljbffr 6AM City, LLC