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Xcelerate Solutions

DevOps Engineer

Xcelerate Solutions, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20814

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DevOps Engineer

Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration. You will participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast paced environment. Location: Bethesda, MD Clearance: Top Secret w/ Poly Responsibilities: To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements. Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings Minimum Requirements: BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master's degree. Must have an active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance Knowledgeable in navigating Linux OS Experienced with container / container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes Skilled with CI/CD pipeline orchestration and the use of Gitlab Comfortable with Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution Preferred Qualifications: Experience with systems at scale Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc. Experience on a production/ enterprise system Experience with any of the following technologies: Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS) Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana GPU-based Kubernetes SALT for deployment automation Helm and Helmfile Nexus