Staff DevOps Engineer - Applied Research Associates, Inc

ARA is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift and you need to have a solid understanding of DevOps principles, container orchestration, and cloud-native application development. The Staff DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth deployment and scalability of applications within OpenShift environments.

Staff DevOps Engineer Key Responsibilities:

• OpenShift Management: Design, deploy, and manage OpenShift clusters to support containerized applications
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes
• Automation: Develop and implement automation scripts to optimize infrastructure deployment, scaling, and maintenance using tools like Ansible, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting tools to ensure high availability and performance of OpenShift environments. Troubleshoot production issues and resolve them efficiently
• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA, and operations teams to integrate DevOps solutions into the development lifecycle
• Cloud Integration: Manage hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, ensuring seamless integration between OpenShift and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Security& Compliance: Implement security best practices for containers and Kubernetes, ensure compliance with industry standards, and conduct regular security audits
• Performance Optimization: Tune application performance, load balancing, and scaling strategies within OpenShift clusters
• Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of infrastructure, systems, and processes

Staff DevOps Engineer Position Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI security clearance
• Bachelors degree in a related field along with 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with OpenShift: 3+ years of hands-on experience managing and administering OpenShift clusters
• Kubernetes Expertise: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, deployments, and associated tools
• Containerization: Proficiency in Docker, container orchestration, and microservices architecture
• Automation Tools: Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or similar IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools
• CI/CD Pipelines: Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Minikube, or similar tools
• Scripting and Programming: Proficient in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Java, Terraform or Groovy
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and their integration with OpenShift
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and logging tools like ELK stack or Splunk
• Version Control: Proficiency in Git and experience with version control practices in a team environment
• Security: Knowledge of container security best practices, including vulnerability scanning and network policies

Staff DevOps Engineer Preferred Qualifications:

• An active TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance
• OpenShift Certified Administrator (OCA) or Kubernetes certification
• Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud architectures
• Understanding of networking in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
• Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to incident resolution
• Experience in implementing DoD STIG’s and RMF Assessment Knowledge

Who is ARA?

Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,271 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

To find out more about what the Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division has to offer, visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/benefits/

Experience

• 5 - 7 years: Relevant Work Experience

Education

• Bachelors or better

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)