DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a DevOps Engineer. Here, you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you'll make an end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career grow ours. 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 joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA.

In this role, you'll join the 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 engineering 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.

What You'll be Owning

• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Establish and improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within test, development, 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 for 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, 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
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On-call support will be required

What You Must Have

• US Citizenship and active TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a CI Polygraph
• Degree in a relevant area and 8+ years of relevant experience, additional years of experience can offset degree requirement.
• 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

What Would be Nice to Have

• 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

Why Choose GRVTY

The toughest national security challenges demand vision and ingenuity, not just resources. We deliver mission and technical expertise to outpace our adversaries. We're purpose-built to tackle the most entrenched, systemic national security issues around the world.

We partner with our customers to help them overcome challenges in every corner of technology and defense—including the ones still being explored. Our growing capabilities create complementary advantages, giving on-the-ground operations the edge they need to succeed. We muster everything we have to answer every challenge presented, every day of our lives.

At GRVTY, we believe that when our employees thrive, our company thrives. That's why we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Robust health plan including medical, dental, and vision

• Health Savings Account with company contribution

• Annual Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

• Paid Parental Leave

• 401k with generous company match

• Training and Development Opportunities

• Award Programs

• Variety of Company Sponsored Events

EEO Statement

GRVTY, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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