DevOps Engineer 2
Role summary
Support the NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform and D3P Modernization effort by designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack containerized microservices architecture in a mission-focused engineering environment. The role involves deploying and maintaining a production big data pipeline on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch and Kafka, enhancing CI/CD processes, designing scalable infrastructure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile setting.
## Position Summary
Support the NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform and D3P Modernization effort by designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack containerized microservices architecture in a mission-focused engineering environment.
## Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch backend and Kafka messaging.
- Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes.
- Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure including physical and virtualized environments.
- Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments in support of new feature requirements.
- Collaborate with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.
- Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and related meetings
## Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of three years of experience in the category field. Two additional years of experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree.
- Strong Linux proficiency.
- Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
- Demonstrated success working in cross-functional engineering environments.
## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating systems at scale.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Development experience with Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java.
- Experience supporting enterprise or production systems.
- Familiarity with Kafka or other messaging systems, Kubernetes monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Helm/Helmfile, and Nexus.
## Required Education and Experience Equivalency
| | |
| --- | --- |
| Education | Years of Experience |
| High School Diploma/GED | 5 |
| Associates Degree | 5 |
| Bachelors’ Degree | 3 |
| Masters’ Degree | 3 |
| PhD | 3 |
## Required Certifications
- None specified.
## Required Security Clearance
- Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
