Infrastructure/Operations Engineer

CACI International•Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

3d•$99,300 - $208,600•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

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
Deep understanding of Linux administration in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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
Deep understanding of AWS services: EC2, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route53, S3, CloudWatch
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.)
Excellent verbal communications skills
Effective writing to produce documentation for technicians, and users