Job Description
Base-2 Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer who will provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:
- Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL.
- Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, NiFi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.
- Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
- Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
- Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
- The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education plus nine (9) years or more of professional experience; or a Master's degree plus seven (7) years of relevant experience.
- Current Security+CE certificate.
Desired Skills (2 of the below)
- Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
- Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
- Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime.
- Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.
Capabilities
- Configuring and managing servers.
- Using scripting or basic programming skills to solve problems.
- Installation and management of open-source monitoring tools.
- Architecture for continuous integration and deployment, and continuous monitoring.
- Analyze system performance issues.
- Assist with managing system requirements.