DevOps Engineer Sr | TS/SCI - Blackspoke
Arnold, MO
About the Job
Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation's safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats. Be part of an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the nation's most critical intelligence organizations. Your work directly impacts national security and global issues, you will have the chance to contribute to missions that are of paramount importance to the United States and its allies, know that that the environments and programs you support are making a difference on a global scale. Our customers operate at the forefront of technology, dealing with some of the most advanced defense, geospatial, and intelligence systems in the world.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Blackspoke. Here you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you'll make the end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career growth ours.
At Blackspoke, people are our differentiator. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared Senior DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO, or Springfield, VA.
What you will be working on:
As the Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:
- 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 will bring to us (Must):
- 8+ years and a 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.
Would be nice if you bring the following (Highly Desired):
- Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk.
- Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or APIs.
- Go programming language experience.
What you will get:
- Joining a team of technology experts and partners in the same mission.
- A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows.
- Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance.
- A highly competitive benefits package that shows we want to hire the very best.
Location: Cortex - St. Louis MO / Patriot Ridge - Springfield VA
US Citizenship Required