Sr. DevOps Engineer
Job Category: Engineering
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Continental US
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CACI is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to support our intelligence customer in St Louis, MO. As a team, we will be responsible for developing and maintaining agency wide Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities deployed across multiple security domains utilizing Agile scrum methodologies. Tailoring cutting-edge solutions to unique requirements of our clients, we will support multiple tenants deploy a myriad of application stacks and data services. Be a part of something greater than yourself and make a lasting impact at CACI.
HOW A DEVOPS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the team the DevOps Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment.
The Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Automate and optimize service deployments.
- Integrate with enterprise authentication services.
- Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
- Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives.
- Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
- Administer production, staging and development environments.
- Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents.
- Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
- Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools.
- Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
- Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
- Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
- Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
- Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
- Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health.
- Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validate completion.
- Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability.
- Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner.
- Aligns to the customer's strategies.
- Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline.
- Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest.
- On-call support may be required
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Required Skills:
- •8+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
- 3+ years of related systems programming experience
- Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)
- 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.
- Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly.
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 We Can Offer You:
- We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation’s highest priorities.
- For over 60 years, the principles of CACI’s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
Company Overview:
CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$74,600-$156,700
