Mid-Level Sysm Engineer

Belay Technologies•Fort Meade, MD

56d•$105,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Belay Technologies is seeking a Mid-Level System Engineer to join our intel team. We are seeking a skilled and motivated Mid-Level DevOps Engineer to join our ICAM team. In this role, the candidate will help build, maintain, and improve the infrastructure, deployment processes, and tooling that enable our development teams to deliver reliable software efficiently. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Elasticsearch, containerization, monitoring, and automation. You should be comfortable working collaboratively with system and software engineers and security teams while taking ownership of DevOps initiatives from implementation through production support.

Requirements

TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
Ten (10) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Experience with Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management.
Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts for application deployment and configuration.
Experience with GitOps tools and CI/CD pipeline integration.
Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience utilizing Ansible.
Understanding scalability and high-availability strategies with deployments across multiple service centers (e.g., availability zones).
Experience with PKI and certificate-based authentication.
Familiarity with REST APIs and service-based architecture.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience using JIRA and Confluence.

Nice To Haves

Experience with containerization, monitoring, and automation.

Responsibilities

Help build, maintain, and improve the infrastructure, deployment processes, and tooling that enable our development teams to deliver reliable software efficiently.
Take ownership of DevOps initiatives from implementation through production support.
Manage Elasticsearch clusters, Logstash pipelines, and Kibana dashboards, focusing on cluster performance and data ingestion.
Support systems using MongoDB.
Collaborate with software developers, test engineers, and system administrators.
Lead technical discussions and brief technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Develop program review materials.