DevOps Engineer 3

Position Summary

Support the NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform and D3P Modernization effort by designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack containerized microservices architecture in a mission-focused engineering environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes with Elasticsearch backend and Kafka messaging. 
• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes. 
• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure including physical and virtualized environments. 
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments in support of new feature requirements. 
• Collaborate with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams. 
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and related meetings

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of six years of experience in the category field. Three additional years of experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree.
• Strong Linux proficiency. 
• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes. 
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab. 
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. 
• Demonstrated success working in cross-functional engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating systems at scale. 
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies. 
• Development experience with Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java. 
• Experience supporting enterprise or production systems. 
• Familiarity with Kafka or other messaging systems, Kubernetes monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Helm/Helmfile, and Nexus.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

Education	Years of Experience
High School Diploma/GED	9
Associates Degree	9
Bachelors’ Degree	6
Masters’ Degree	6
PhD	6

Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.