DevOps Engineer
- ETalentNetwork
14 Hours Ago
NA
C2C
Englewood-CO
8-10 Years
Required Skills: DevOps, CI/CD, CI/CD pipelines, Release engineering, GitHub, Deployment automation, Release readiness, Configuration control, Virtualization, RHEL KVM, VMware, vSphere, VMware virtualization environments, Edge, standalone compute systems, Containers & Orchestration, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Microservices, Container platforms
Job Description
DevOps Engineer—Active Secret Clearance
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines that support multiple deployment approaches across cloud, on‐premises, and hybrid environments
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to ensure consistent, reliable environments throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Optimize and standardize deployment workflows, enabling repeatable release processes that accommodate variations in product and customer requirements
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance and reliability, applying advanced diagnostic skills across distributed systems and complex integrations
- Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to align deployment strategies with architectural goals, security requirements, and operational best practices
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives refining operational tooling and establishing best‐practice documentation for deployment and release operations
- Works as part of a larger software development team to rapidly provide operational capabilities to the field
Qualifications You Must Have:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps or related role
- Higher level relevant degree may substitute for experience
- Relevant experience can be considered as a substitute for the required educational qualifications. In the absence of a degree, a minimum of 12 years of related experience is required.
- Hands-on virtualization development experience, with extensive knowledge designing and deploying software products using RHEL KVM and the VMWare family of products
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or Openshift and related container platform ecosystems
- Experience establishing virtualization and containerization environments in edge deployments or stand-alone compute systems
- Demonstrated implementation of microservices and containers
- Demonstrated experience with developer tools such as GitHub
- Strong understanding and experience of release engineering, CI and CD pipelines
- Proven track record of delivering high quality and consistent systems and environments for development teams
- Ability to rapidly work with minimal supervision on projects involving both small and large teams
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment
- Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
Qualifications We Prefer:
- Master's degree in a related field
- Experience in the Aerospace and Defense industry, including working in multiple security domains and on air-gapped systems
- VMWare Certified Professional – VMWare vSphere Foundation Administrator
- VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Advanced proficiency with Ansible, including developing and maintaining playbooks
- Experience coordinating release readiness activities
- Experience implementing and enforcing configuration control of development environments
- Experience generating process documentation and training engineers on environment configuration and deployment
Essential Functions:
- Ability to work on a computer for extended periods
- Frequent communication with team members and stakeholders
- Ability to work in an office or hybrid environment
- Design and manage complex infrastructure solutions, leveraging virtualization, containerization, and orchestration tools to support scalable and secure environments
- Mentor software and systems engineers and promote best practices in DevOps methodologies to maintain high standards of performance and security
- Collaborate with development, QA, security, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications and services, fostering a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility
- Occasional travel may be required
- Must be able to lift up to 10 lbs occasionally
