Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a DevOps Engineer, Sr on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer.  All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

• Automates and optimizes service deployments

• Integrates with enterprise authentication services

• Establishes and Improves system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.

• Builds, tests, and maintains custom Helm Charts using Gitlab and ArgoCD

• Builds, tests, and maintains custom OpenShift Operators

• Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using Gitlab CI/CD  pipelines to create complex ci-templates and custom runners.

• Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain Container software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation

• Creates FIPS compliant and hardens custom container images using UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images.

• Maintains up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks

• Creates and determines required metrics for dashboards and service health

• Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Degree and Years of Experience: 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 Kubernetes experience, preferably with OpenShift

• 3+ years of experience building custom container images and platforms

• 3+ years of experience building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images

• 3+ years of experience using Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to manage application deployment and state within Kubernetes from Gitlab

Required Skills:

• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
• Understanding of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages to automate builds
• Knowledge of the Operator Framework and how operators are deployed
• 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

Desired Skills: 

• Experience in building custom operators with the operator-sdk
• Experience developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) or API's
• Go programming language experience

Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients. We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise. 

Abile Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days. 

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