DevOps Specialist
CTI, United States

CTI is seeking a versatile DevOps engineer to join our team to help develop and support our emerging cloud infrastructure and build frameworks. You will build and support the tools that empower an advanced, fast-growing engineering organization.

You will work closely with engineers at all levels of our technology stack. From hardware industrial design and firmware implementation to micro-services and mobile applications, we need candidates with interest in a broad set of technologies.

At CTI you will design and implement scalable, highly available, and secure technology solutions for wide-reaching projects in support of commercial and our military user community goals. You will work with cross-functional teams to launch new services. You will document and design new and update existing DevOps processes.

You will aid our technical and QA teams by providing velocity and stability to the products we produce. You’ll become the leader of our systems and the OS/applications running on them. You’ll become the driver behind the automated tooling that will help our developers develop and our users complete their missions.

• Automating the deployment and scaling of containerized cloud native applications using Kubernetes.
• Provide support for automated deployments.
• Dockerize applications across CTI for build support and deployment.
• Support existing deployments in AWS and Azure and implement more rapid and reliable deployments.
• Identify design gaps in existing cloud deployments and propose/implement solutions.
• Comfortable with leading change in a complex environment.




Desired Qualities and Experience
• Proven track record with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automating cloud solutions such as Terraform.
• Experience provisioning and configuring cloud native infrastructure
• Experience monitoring, diagnosing, analyzing root cause, and implementing preventative measures to avoid reoccurrence
• Nimble CI/CD approach to application builds and cloud deployments.
• Experienced using shell scripts and CLI utilities for general Linux and some Windows administration.
• Eager to provide technical guidance and education to team members and coworkers on DevOps best practices.
• Expertise in the design and automation of software builds and deployments, ideally with a familiarity of the Java ecosystem.
• Ability to rapidly apply Docker to ease build and deployment.
• A team player with excellent communication skills that is also comfortable working independently.
• Able to balance the day-to-day needs of a large production environment against implementing iterative technology improvements.
• Love to build new things, but realize that maintenance is half the battle.
• Keeps in mind security while maintaining and developing infrastructure and tools. Always thinking of logs, monitors, and alerts.
• Relentless focus on automation and reproducibility. Able to accomplish that with increasingly complex tools (bash, Java, Python, Ansible, etc).
• Evangelize DEVSEC OPS.

Bonus Skills and Qualities

• Experience in an IoT and micro-services environment.
• Gradle experience.
• Rancher experience.
• Have worked within PCI, HIPPA, NIST, or other compliance specifications.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and other Hashicorp tools.
• Solid understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, layer 3 and layer 7 load balancing and routing.
• Always following advancement in cloud computing technologies and applications.
• Ability to design and implement edge available and redundant services.
• Leverage network technologies to achieve scale and latency requirements.
• Experience creating scalable infrastructure in a multi-account AWS, Azure, and on-premise.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• U.S. Citizenship is required due to this position requiring a U.S. government clearance (Secret clearance at a minimum)
• Proven track record with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automating cloud solutions such as Terraform.
• 5-7 years of experience
• Must have the ability to travel occasionally, pending COVID19.
• Automating the deployment and scaling of containerized cloud native applications using Kubernetes.
• Provide support for automated deployments.
• Dockerize applications across CTI for build support and deployment.
• Support existing deployments in AWS and Azure and implement more rapid and reliable deployments.
• Identify design gaps in existing cloud deployments and propose/implement solutions.
• Comfortable with leading change in a complex environment.
• Experience provisioning and configuring cloud native infrastruct

Job Rewards and Benefits