DevOps Engineer 4

Base-2 Solutions, LLC; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions, LLC is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to support the NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform and D3P modernization by designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack containerized microservices architecture in a mission-focused engineering environment.

You will deploy and maintain a production big data pipeline on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch, Kafka, and related tooling, while enhancing CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure automation in a cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in the field.
• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
• Cross-functional engineering collaboration in a fast-paced env.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
• Enhance CI/CD scripts and DevOps processes.
• Design and support scalable infrastructure including physical and virtualized environments.
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and related meetings.

Skills

Strong Linux proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Master’s degree in a relevant field

PhD in a relevant field

Tools

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Kafka

GitLab CI/CD

Helm

Helmfile

Nexus

Prometheus

Grafana

Bash

PowerShell

SALT

Python

Groovy

Java

Job description

Position Summary

Support the NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform and D3P Modernization effort by designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack containerized microservices architecture in a mission-focused engineering environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch backend and Kafka messaging.
• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes.
• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure including physical and virtualized environments.
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments in support of new feature requirements.
• Collaborate with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and related meetings

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of ten years of experience in the category field.
• Strong Linux proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
• Demonstrated success working in cross-functional engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating systems at scale.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
• Development experience with Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java.
• Experience supporting enterprise or production systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka or other messaging systems, Kubernetes monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Helm/Helmfile, and Nexus.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

• Bachelors’ Degree with 10 years of experience.
• Masters’ Degree with 10 years of experience.
• PhD with 10 years of experience.

Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.