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DevOps Engineer

Bethesda, Maryland, United StatesOnsiteFull Time$160–$180 /hrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Bethesda, MD, to design, deploy, and maintain a full-stack containerized microservices architecture. Responsibilities include managing a production big data pipeline on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch and Kafka, enhancing CI/CD processes using Gitlab, and supporting scalable infrastructure. The role requires strong knowledge of Linux OS, Kubernetes, CI/CD orchestration, and Elasticsearch. A Top Secret/ SCI security clearance is mandatory. Preferred qualifications include experience with systems at scale, Agile methodologies, and various scripting/programming languages like Python and Bash.

DevOps Engineer

Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration. You will participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

Location:
Bethesda, MD

Clearance:
Must have an active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance

Responsibilities
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  • To 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 facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
  • Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
  • Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
  • Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements
  • Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
  • Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings

Minimum Requirements:

  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree.
  • Must have an active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
  • Knowledgeable in navigating Linux OS
  • Experienced with container / container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes
  • Skilled with CI/CD pipeline orchestration and the use of Gitlab
  • Comfortable with Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana
  • Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with systems at scale
  • Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
  • Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
  • Experience on a production/ enterprise system
  • Experience with any of the following technologies:
  • Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
  • Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
  • GPU-based Kubernetes
  • SALT for deployment automation
  • Helm and Helmfile
  • Nexus
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