DevOps Engineer (TS/SCI)

Vantor•Herndon, VA

12h•Onsite

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a DevOps Engineer with on-premises and cloud expertise to support the management of a new infrastructure platform. The role joins an operations, software, and analytics team that develops solutions for intelligence analysts and other national security users. The position requires U.S. citizenship and an active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance with CI poly, or willingness to obtain a CI poly; employment is contingent on verification of clearance status. The work is based in Herndon, Virginia, and requires working 90% or as needed in a SCIF environment. The engineer will manage a private cloud environment and build automated infrastructure and delivery workflows, while supporting systems from bare-metal operating systems through deployed applications. The role also includes maintaining compliance with ATO accreditation requirements and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet customer system-integration requirements.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen.
Must have an active TS/SCI clearance with CI poly, or be willing to obtain a CI poly.
Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in a technical support role; additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
Demonstrated technical experience with DevOps and strong Linux experience.
Experience deploying and maintaining open-source and custom applications.
Ability to work effectively with a geographically distributed operations and development team.
Effective written and oral communication with customers and team members.
Willingness to work 90% or as needed in a SCIF environment in Herndon, Virginia.

Nice To Haves

Experience with hardware and software sustainment on IC and DoD networks.
Experience with distributed processing methods and tools, such as REST APIs, microservices, and IaaS/PaaS services.
Experience developing and deploying web services.
Experience working with open-source resources in a government computing environment.
Familiarity with hybrid cloud/on-premises architecture, AWS, and C2S.
Familiarity with data visualization, data management, data integration, user interfaces, and databases.

Responsibilities

Configure, monitor, and maintain the private cloud environment using Kubernetes.
Create and maintain automated, repeatable environment creation and configuration scripts using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Helm or similar tools.
Create and maintain automated DevOps pipelines using open-source tools, including ArgoCD, GitLab, SonarQube, ArgoWorkflows, MLFlow, and Ray.
Monitor, predict, update, and resolve issues at all levels, from bare-metal operating systems to deployed applications.
Oversee and manage compliance with ATO accreditation needs through tuning, patching, or documentation.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine requirements and execute customer-defined system-integration requirements.