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Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nations safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.Be part of an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the nation's most critical intelligence organizations. Your work directly impacts national security and global issues, you will have the chance to contribute to missions that are of paramount importance to the United States and its allies, know that that the environments and programs you support are making a difference on a global scale. Our customers operate at the forefront of technology, dealing with some of the most advanced defense, geospatial, and intelligence systems in the world.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nations safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to transform technology into opportunity. As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Blackspoke, you will be at the cutting edge of systems and software engineering, playing a meaningful part in enhancing how agencies operate.

What you will be working on: As the Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Automate and optimize service deployments.
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services and establish improved system monitoring while maintaining security protocols.
• Architect, build, and maintain on-premise and/or cloud infrastructure.
• Administer production, staging, and development environments.
• Manage server logs, monitor system performance, and enforce best practices for security and reliability.
• Work within a team that aligns to customer strategies and utilizes enterprise DevSecOps pipelines.
• Provide on-call support as required.

What you will bring to us (Must):

• Active TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of systems programming experience with a strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, Nagios), container platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift), and CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, and excellent time management skills.
• Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
• Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes
• Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
• Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
• Experience with deploying to on-prem/data center infrastructure
• Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis

Would be nice if you bring the following (Highly Desired):

• Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

What you will get:

• A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows. We are looking for leaders.
• Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance.
• A highly competitive benefits package that sh ws we want to hire the very best.

Location:On Customer Site, St. Louis, MO / Springfield, VA US Citizenship Required

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans or veterans with service-connected disabilities, are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance applying outside of the online application, please contactrecruiting@blackspoke.comfor more information.

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