DevOps Engineer Level 4

Job Description

Position Summary
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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 Responsibilities
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* 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 requirements.
* 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 Qualifications
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* Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
* Bachelor's degree with a minimum of ten years of experience in the category field.
* 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.
* Experience developing GitLab pipelines, including integration of GitLab CI/CD components, Code Quality reports, and Code Coverage/Test reports.
* 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
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* 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
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* Bachelors' Degree with 10 years of experience.
* Masters' Degree with 10 years of experience.
* PhD with 10 years of experience.

Required Certifications
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* At least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification

Required Security Clearance
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* Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.