DevOps Engineer

Knight Federal Solutions is a trusted provider to industry leading prime contractors, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. We have established a company culture that supports our employees, their families and the communities in which they live and work. When you join our team you belong to a group of people that work hard, strive for greatness and care about people.

Our hard work is evident in everything we do. Whether it be supporting large government programs in the areas of Simulation and Training, Information Technology, Intelligence or Engineering we always strive to be the best. It is for this reason that we have been recognized as a World Class Team Supplier by Northrop Grumman and were also named one of Florida’s fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine.

As Knight Federal Solutions continues to grow, we look forward to hiring the best and the brightest to join us in our success!

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for large C/C++ systems
• Compiling and linking components using tools such as Qt, protobuf, IDL, and related build tooling
• Packaging software and system dependencies into RPMs
• Provisioning system environments using virtualization, containerization and automated infrastructure
• Developing automation to provision and configure systems using tools such as:
• KVM / QEMU
• PXE boot
• Kickstart
• Podman
• Ansible
• Improving and modernizing our infrastructure automation with tools such as:
• Terraform
• Cloud-init
• Infrastructure-as-code practices
• Improving pipeline reliability, observability, and developer experience

Build & Packaging

• C/C++ build systems
• RPM packaging
• Gradle or other build automation tools
• Infrastructure & Provisioning
• Virtualization (KVM, QEMU)
• PXE boot environments
• Kickstart or automated OS provisioning
• Configuration management (Ansible)
• Podman/Docker

Infrastructure-as-Code / Modern DevOps

• Terraform
• Cloud-init
• Infrastructure automation patterns

Clearance: Secret

Preferred Qualifications:

• Computer Science or Software Engineering degree
• Previous role as Software Engineer
• Significant coding experience

*Knight Federal Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other protected classification.*