DevOps Engineer – GitLab CI/CD, Nexus & AWS Cloud

Base-2 Solutions, LLC.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to support modernization and deployment of a government information system. The candidate will manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Nexus repositories, and Solr clusters with ZooKeeper in production environments.

Responsibilities include automating deployments, IaC with CloudFormation/Terraform, and migrating on-prem VMware to AWS. Strong Windows Server and AWS expertise are essential, with security controls across on-prem and cloud needed.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Nexus Repository management experience.
• Building and maintaining Apache Solr clusters with ZooKeeper in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Windows Server administration.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Infrastructure-as-code practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Automate deployment processes across development, staging, and production environments.
• Manage Nexus Repository for artifact storage and dependency management.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
• Build and maintain Apache Solr clusters with ZooKeeper in production environments.
• Administer Windows Server environments and orchestrate infrastructure upgrades.
• Plan and execute migration strategies from on-premises VMware to AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Configure and manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and related components.
• Develop containerization strategies for Java applications.
• Implement configuration management tools and practices.
• Apply security controls in both on-premises VMware and AWS cloud environments.
• Monitor system performance and implement optimization strategies.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD pipelines

Nexus Repository management

Apache Solr with ZooKeeper

Windows Server administration

AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3)

Terraform/CloudFormation

Infrastructure-as-code

Containerization (Java apps)

Configuration management tools

Security controls (on-prem & cloud)

Monitoring & optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree with 9 years experience

Master's degree with 7 years experience

No degree with 13+ years experience

Tools

GitLab

Nexus Repository

Apache Solr

ZooKeeper

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

VMware

Job description

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to support modernization and deployment of a government information system. The candidate will manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Nexus repositories, and Solr clusters with ZooKeeper in production environments.

Responsibilities include automating deployments, IaC with CloudFormation/Terraform, and migrating on-prem VMware to AWS. Strong Windows Server and AWS expertise are essential, with security controls across on-prem and cloud needed.