Position
Summary Base-2 Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform Modernization program in Bethesda, Maryland. This role supports the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full-stack containerized microservices architecture and contributes to DevOps, systems administration, installation, configuration, and production support activities. Essential
Duties and
- Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging.
- Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to support faster development, quicker error detection, and resilient deployments.
- Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure, including physical and virtualized environments.
- Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature
requirements.
- Collaborate with Systems Engineers to design solutions for new features and
- Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation, diagrams, and models in coordination with Systems Engineering and Architecture team members.
- Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and other meetings. Required
- Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of ten years of
- Possess at least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification, such as CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, CISSP, or CISSP Associate.
- Ability to obtain Privileged User Account certification per DoD 8570 policy.
Experience with containers and container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes environments, including Ingress/Gateway API, Helm chart design/build, pod disruption budgets, affinity/anti-affinity rules, external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, and eck/Elasticsearch.
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- Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
- Knowledge of sysctls for Kubernetes environments.
Experience with FApolicyd and SELinux.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
- Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution.
Preferred
Qualifications
- Experience with systems at scale.
- Experience or knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques.
- Experience with development or scripting languages and tools, such as Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java.
- Experience supporting a production or enterprise system.
- Experience with Kafka or other message-passing systems, such as AMQP or JMS.
- Experience with Kubernetes monitoring tools, such as Prometheus or Grafana.
- Experience with GPU-based Kubernetes.
- Experience with SALT for deployment automation.
- Experience with Nexus. Required
Education and
Experience Equivalency
- Bachelors' Degree with 10 years of
experience.
- Masters' Degree with 10 years of
experience.
experience. Required Certifications
- At least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification Required Security
Clearance
- Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.