DevOps Engineer, Mid.

**ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED**

 

Become a Key Player as a DevOps Engineer: Shape the Future, Secure the Present

Are you ready to help safeguard today's systems and pave the way for smarter, more efficient operations tomorrow? Join our team as a DevOps Engineer and make a direct impact on critical intelligence projects. If you’re a TS/SCI-cleared professional, we want you to help support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO.

How You'll Make a Real Difference:

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be at the center of innovation and security, empowering our team to build systems that are both resilient and efficient. Your role will include:

• Automating and optimizing the deployment of services to ensure smooth and seamless operations.
• Integrating enterprise-level authentication services, ensuring both security and accessibility.
• Enhancing system monitoring across development, test, and production environments, while adhering to security protocols.
• Building, testing, and maintaining custom Helm charts using GitLab and ArgoCD to streamline deployments.
• Creating and managing OpenShift Operators to automate and optimize platform management.
• Improving existing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, designing complex templates and custom runners for efficient software delivery.
• Applying configuration management practices to ensure container software stays up-to-date with security patches and best practices.
• Building FIPS-compliant, hardened container images with UBI9-minimal and UBI9-micro base images.
• Documenting configurations and designs to maintain continuity and ensure smooth team collaboration.
• Developing key metrics and dashboards to monitor and improve service health and performance.
• Collaborating across teams, following up on engineering tasks to ensure that operational solutions are fully executed and delivered.

What You Need to Succeed:

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in DevOps or related fields, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar (or equivalent combination of education and work experience).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes (OpenShift preferred).
• Solid experience building custom container images and platforms.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and software/application development processes.
• Proven track record of building GitLab CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and deploy custom container images.
• Experience with Helm and GitOps tools (such as ArgoCD or Flux) for managing application deployments within Kubernetes from GitLab.
• Comfortable with scripting in languages like Python, Bash, or others to automate builds.
• Familiarity with the Operator Framework and the deployment of custom operators.
• Excellent problem-solving skills to quickly troubleshoot and optimize systems.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Exceptional time management skills, with a proven ability to work independently and efficiently.
• Experience deploying on-premise or data center infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence for project tracking and documentation.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with eligibility to obtain a CI Polygraph.

Desired Skills:

• Experience building custom operators using the operator-sdk.
• Familiarity with developing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) or APIs.
• Go programming language experience is a plus.

 

Location: On-Site in St. Louis, MO
US Citizenship Required

 

If you’re a passionate and experienced DevOps professional looking for a rewarding challenge, we want you to be part of our team. Join us, and together we’ll build smarter, safer systems for the future.

 

Additional Information

• All your information will be kept confidential according to appropriate guidelines.
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically $135k-155k. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Accrued PTO, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and more!

Job applicants that are interested in one of our openings and may require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, should contact us to request an accommodation.