Senior DevOps Engineer

teKnoluxion•St. Louis, MO

2h•$154,000 - $185,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions. Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team as a Senior DevOps Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission.

Requirements

Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly
Technical certification Network +, Security +, CISSP, etc.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or any related field/major, or 2 additional years of experience in information technology
6+ years of experience
Proficiency with Linux operating systems
Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)
Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth/Auth2 or similar zero-trust identity implementations
Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps style operations management
Experience with web server management (e.g. DNS, certificate management)
Knowledge of HTTP API design standards and best practices
Ability to manage networking for web applications (TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing)
Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, with knowledge of AWS
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (one or more of Terraform, OpenShift Containerized Platform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
Knowledge of including monitoring & logging and network & security for containers
Experience deploying and managing databases, interacting with DBs via SQL and ORMs
Comfortable writing Python and BASH to create systems tooling
Ability to contribute code updates/tweaks to existing code repositories
Experience with software system design with the ability to create application architecture diagrams for new applications
Experience integrating security components with applications and databases

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Configuration Management and Request for Change process for review and assessment
Experience implementing zero-downtime re-indexing strategies and managing complex Elasticsearch data models (e.g., routing, query-time, de-duplication) within an OpenShift/Kubernetes environment
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Alloy, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, or Grafana
An understanding of reverse proxies such as Nginx, Traefik or Apache HTTP Server (WebGate), HAProxy, or Envoy.
Experience with delivery of an integrated solution using Agile software delivery techniques
Experience in System Engineering and project/program management.
Intelligence Community Experience preferred

Responsibilities

Drive faster, more reliable software delivery by strengthening the practices, automation and operational discipline that helps teams ship with confidence.
Bridge development and operations to remove friction, improve collaboration, and ensure releases reach users with less disruption and greater consistency.
Enhance observability, monitoring, and incident response to accelerate issue detection and recovery.
Improve system configuration management and documentation to support scalability, resilience, and long-term operational excellence.
Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications.
Take source code, dependencies to perform application builds.
Perform automated testing and security scans.
Deploy to multiple environments (Dev, Staging, Operations).
Responsible for Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management.
Author helm charts to deploy resources to OpenShift.
Manage and document system security, by performing software updates in response to scan findings, document system, architecture to demonstrate security compliance.
In-depth knowledge, principles, and methods of enterprise solutions.
Eight years of experience designing and implementing complex systems in a classified environment. Experience developing strategic system architecture plans.
Experience in system and network creation and development.
Solid understanding of information processing fundamentals and best practices.
Researches, designs, develops, and/or modifies enterprise-wide cloud solutions and/or applications software.
Designs, develops, codes, tests and debugs highly complex new software products or makes significant enhancements to existing software.
Develops and applies advanced methods, theories, and research techniques in the investigation and solution of complex and advanced software applications and problems.
Resolves highly complex hardware/software compatibility and interface design considerations.
Conducts investigations and tests of considerable complexity.
Factors emerging technologies and product supportability into design and implementation.
Provides input to staff involved in writing and updating technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, and training materials.
Advises hardware engineers on machine characteristics that affect software systems, such as storage capacity, processing speed, and input/output requirements.
Prepares reports on analyses, findings, and project progress, and presents results to management and/or customer personnel.