Senior DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes, CI/CD & Big Data

Base-2 Solutions; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Floating holidays

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and sustain a containerized microservices platform in Bethesda, MD. The role focuses on scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence in a high-security environment.

You will work with Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and GitLab to enable robust data pipelines while collaborating with architecture, security, and development teams in an Agile setting.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree with 10 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.

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

Skills

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

CI/CD

GitLab

Containerization

Prometheus

Grafana

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Java

Groovy

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Kafka

GitLab

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Job description

Base-2 Solutions seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and sustain a containerized microservices platform in Bethesda, MD. The role focuses on scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence in a high-security environment.

You will work with Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and GitLab to enable robust data pipelines while collaborating with architecture, security, and development teams in an Agile setting.