[Remote] Senior DevOps Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of product deployments, ensuring the seamless integration and optimization of software solutions in on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Automating IaC to manage virtual machines and deploy containers, services, and other infrastructure; applying your expertise to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
• Working with platform developers, other DevOps teammates, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• Software deployments to commercial and, later, unclassified, CUI, and classified Department of Defense (DOD) networks
• Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults
• Monitoring, automating, and improving software reliability, performance, and availability for various projects
• Acting as a liaison between platform developers and customer-facing teams, taking on operational tasks to ensure the efficient functioning of Striveworks' solutions
• Providing guidance and leadership to junior DevOps team members
• Contributing to the success of mission-critical systems within national security and commercial clients
• Wearing multiple hats and stepping into vacuums where improvements are needed
• Exploring new technologies and solutions

Skills

• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Python and/or Golang programming, or other general purpose programming languages
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Microservice deployment in Kubernetes
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack)
• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• The ability to work cross functionally to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• The ability to respond professionally and competently to incident reports and triage critical system faults
• Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
• Due to the nature of this role, candidates must have US citizenship
• Experience with US federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and ICD 503
• Experience with software deployments to on-premises and cloud-based unclassified, CUI, and classified networks within the DOD
• Experience with DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD for the administration and deployment of GPU-enabled servers
• Experience deploying or maintaining Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects
• Experience with network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native applications and services in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited impact (DDIL) environments

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

Company Overview

Striveworks specializes in AIOps, AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, we help organizations solve complex national security and business challenges. Learn more at https://striveworks.com.