Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & Data Pipeline

RPMGlobal; Bethesda, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions in Bethesda, MD is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform Modernization program. You will design, deploy, and maintain a containerized microservices stack, while contributing to DevOps, systems administration, installation, configuration, and production support activities.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-functional collaboration with Systems Engineering and Architecture teams in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in the category field.
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account certification per DoD 8570 policy.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes.
• Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes environments, including Ingress/Gateway API, Helm chart design/build, pod disruption budgets, affinity/anti-affinity rules, external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, and eck/Elasticsearch.
• Experience developing GitLab pipelines, including integration of GitLab CI/CD components, Code Quality reports, and Code Coverage/Test reports.
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of sysctls for Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with FApolicyd and SELinux.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging.
• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to support faster development, quicker error detection, and resilient deployments.
• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure, including physical and virtualized environments.
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements.
• Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation, diagrams, and models in coordination with Systems Engineering and Architecture team members.
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and other meetings.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

CI/CD pipelines

Cross-functional planning

Agile collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

GitLab

ArgoCD

Helm

cert-manager

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Prometheus

Job description

Base-2 Solutions in Bethesda, MD is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform Modernization program. You will design, deploy, and maintain a containerized microservices stack, while contributing to DevOps, systems administration, installation, configuration, and production support activities.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-functional collaboration with Systems Engineering and Architecture teams in an Agile environment.