Infrastructure/Operations Engineer

CACI • Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The DSOP platform is a regularly evolving suite of software development and delivery tools. It is hosted on AWS and leverages all cloud native technologies. It is a container driven ecosystem hosted on Amazons Elastic Kubernetes Service. Currently, it consists of the following software tools: Gitlab, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Nexus Repository, SonarQube, Draw.io, Semgrep, Keycloak, ArgoCD. AWS native tools are utilized to support the platform logging and monitoring with FY26 plans to include a Grafana based monitoring stack.

Requirements

• An active DoD Secret.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Engineering or Technical discipline.
• 7 years’ experience or 15 years of applicable experience with appropriate certifications may be substituted for the degree.
• IAT Level II Certification (CCNA Security, CSA+, GICSP, GSEC, Sec+CE, SSCP).
• Computing environment certification
• Deep understanding of Linux administration in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Proven integration of identity management and directory services, specifically ADFS integration (Active Directory Federated Services) and SSO leveraging OIDC/SAML tools such as Keycloak
• Deep understanding of AWS services: EC2, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route53, S3, CloudWatch
• Excellent verbal communications skills

Nice To Haves

• An Advanced degree is desired.
• Experience using project planning software (such as Jira, Jira Service Desk and Confluence for planning and task tracking)

Responsibilities

• Proficient in the administration of software development applications listed in the “Environment Details” section.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
• Proven experience deploying and managing cloud-native (AWS) Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) solutions
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, RBAC, pod security policies, and IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
• Experience in using Git and GitOps workflows.
• Proven integration of identity management and directory services, specifically ADFS integration (Active Directory Federated Services) and SSO leveraging OIDC/SAML tools such as Keycloak
• Proficiency in container orchestration which involves managing and automating the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose)
• Proficient providing escalation support for cloud-related incidents and service requests
• Experience monitoring system performance and availability using cloud-native and third-party tools
• Automating routine tasks through scripting (e.g., Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash)
• Exceptional technical troubleshooting skill (applications, services, servers, networking, etc.)
• Effective writing to produce documentation for technicians, and users

Benefits

• flexible time off
• robust learning resources
• competitive compensation
• benefits and learning and development opportunities
• comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior