Jacobs Solutions-posted 4 months ago
$160,000 - $190,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Chantilly, VA
5,001-10,000 employees
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Knack Works, a Jacobs Company, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with a passion for engineering automated solutions to join the team on-site in Northern Virginia. Knack Works is focused on providing scalable and automated cloud-native solutions that enable their customers to perform their national security missions in an ever-changing environment of new technologies and evolving threats. The flagship product, the 'Knack Stack,' introduces flexible and automated hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service for cloud-agnostic deployments and automation. It is designed to provide a fully-featured and accredited cloud-native environment that works offline in secure environments.

  • Support the daily activities of configuration and operation of cloud and on-prem equipment
  • Seamlessly implement technical architectures into cloud and on-prem infrastructure, including design, maintenance, support, and planning
  • Responsible for identifying the optimal cloud and on-prem based solutions for existing and emerging use cases
  • Ensure the cloud and on-prem solution meets availability, accessibility, scalability, and cost-based needs
  • Architect and implement cloud and on-prem security features, to include ensuring interfacing with identity services and the proper processing of sensitive data from a protection, encryption, transport, storage, access, and auditing standpoint
  • Work through the development lifecycle with cloud and on-prem technologies, including CI/CD releases
  • Seek to automate manual tasks and build automation into the configuration management of the system environments
  • Monitor and track problem solutions for all clients, server, storage, and network devices
  • Provide Tier 2 problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems and assist in the resolution of Tier 3 technical fixes
  • BA/BS Computer Science, or BA/BS Engineering
  • Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph
  • 10 years of relevant technical experience
  • Must work on-site in Northern Virginia
  • Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes
  • Experience developing tools with Python and Go
  • Experience with CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) frameworks
  • Experience with advanced orchestration on cloud platforms
  • Experience with RHEL system administration
  • Strong proficiency with git
  • Experience with automation tools such as Puppet or Ansible
  • Current Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification
  • Current Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification
  • Current Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification
  • Ability to implement Helm charts from scratch
  • Ability to create container images from scratch
  • CI/CD experience with GitLab
  • Experience with on prem virtualization such as KVM, LibVirt, or VMware
  • Experience with packaging software with rpm, Koji preferred
  • Access to medical, dental, vision, and a variety of insurance offerings, including an optional Health Savings Account
  • Profit-Sharing Plan (PSP) which includes both PSP contributions and an optional 401(k) plan
  • Unique Individual Benefit Account allowing employees to choose time off when they want it
  • Ability to purchase Jacobs company stock at a discount
  • Company matching for qualified non-profit donations
  • Training and education support
  • Product discounts
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