Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Senior Advanced DevOps Engineer

Client: Defense-Aerospace

Hourly Rate: up to $75/hr (W2, non-benefited)

Length: Long-term

Location: Boulder, CO (Hybrid)

Clearance: Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance is required at time of hire.

Description:

• Contribute to automation that instantiates and maintains container orchestration platforms
• Automatically configure and deploy infrastructure services consisting of identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, deployment and more
• Work closely with our team to plan major updates and enhancements to our products
• In this role, you will be working with critical internal and external platform consumers.
• Together with the team, you will support successful implementation of the platform in the Cloud through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.
• This position is flex but requires at least 2-3 days per week of onsite support in Boulder, CO.

Candidates should have demonstrated familiarity and experience in some of the following areas:

• Experience working with, or are familiar with the differences between, public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments
• Container technologies such as Docker, or Kubernetes
• Deployment or use of continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience supporting production-grade applications in virtualized environments (cloud computing platforms and services) using automation
• Creation or use of pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, and/or Terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from resource creation to service configuration
• Effective communication and attention to detail

Desired Skills

• IT security practices including encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing
• Installation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies such as Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, RHOSP, or VIO
• Management of Cloud Resources in Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or OpenShift
• Cloud automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, or Packer
• Open source server, messaging, load balancing, and database software (such as RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers (NGINX)/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)

Required Education and Experience:

Requires a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field. Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.

If interested in learning more about this position, please email your resume to KDunkin@geologics.com and I will call back with more information.

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