Systems Engineer, TechOps- Level 3

White Sky Technologies•Annapolis Junction, MD

21h

About The Position

White Sky Technologies specializes in systems engineering and technology management solutions for U.S. Government clients. We are committed to meeting our customer’s needs with a dedicated and highly qualified workforce. We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineers to join our growing team. This team designs, implements and maintains DevOps resources for multiple product teams and enables teams to automate the build and deployment where possible. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who has a deep understanding of the needed technologies and the initiative to learn new skills.

Requirements

20+ years experience as a Systems Engineer on programs/contracts of similar scope, type and complexity
Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management or related discipline; 5 years additional SE experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s Degree
Active TS/SCI w/ Poly

Nice To Haves

Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CS pipelines to automate deployment processes
Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS, using Terraform and auto scaling
Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability
Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS
Familiarity with FOSS tools such as Elasticsearch, Prometheus/Grafana, PGAdmin, etc. that can be installed in Kubernetes via helm chart
Familiarity with various Kubernetes storage class types such as GP3, Longhorn, EBS, etc.

Responsibilities

Developing infrastructure as code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services and build tools.
Install, configure and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools (i.e. Elasticsearch, Grafana/Prometheus).
Managing Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing and deployment code utilizing GitLab runner and Argo CD.
Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.