Senior DevOps Engineer

GliaCell Technologies•Annapolis Junction, MD

1d•$170,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

GliaCell is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer on one of our subcontracts. This is a full-time position offering the opportunity to support a U.S. Government customer. The mission is to provide technical expertise that assists in sustaining critical mission-related software and systems to a large government contract.

Requirements

Possess an active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
U.S. Citizenship.
Bachelor's degree or higher is required in either Engineering (i. e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science with a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)
Works well independently as well as on a team.
Strong communication skills.
AWS (e.g., ECS, EKS) – hands on experience working with DOD's specific implementation
Kubernetes
Infrastructure automation
Kafka
Java
NiFi
PostgreSQL

Nice To Haves

Must be fluent with Git
Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 617/8, RHCSNRHCE CentOS)
Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency and performance.
10+ years working in an Agile dev environment (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master degree in relevant field)
Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred
Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, etc.)
Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus). Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance etc.

Responsibilities

Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production
Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, stag in g, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits