DevOps Engineer

• Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
• Type: Contract
• Job #3310

Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Dev/Ops positions available ito deploy and sustain platform as a service environment.

Role & Responsibilities:
Design, development and maintain Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, including but not limited to:

• Produce and maintain functional Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code according to consumer needs based on the ticket requirements (such as: solutions for Security/Policy & Network, Monitoring & Logging, Storage, CI/CD Pipelines, Service Mesh and Backup & Restore)
• Collaborate with stakeholders, development and product teams to understand operational product requirements, feature specifications, Architecture, CM and Testing processes
• Manage time for assigned tasks to ensure progression/status updates and provide Level of Effort (LOE) forecasting with stakeholders
• Understand and assist with documenting implementation requirements definition fulfillment, prior to execution of ticket
• Ensure industry and security best practices across the team are known, in accordance with SSP and ISSO(s) and implemented
• Research and study trends with relevant tools and technologies from the industry and Agency
• Participate in team code reviews, cross-training, brainstorming, sprint review/demo, sprint planning sessions
• Create and maintain clear and concise implementation documentation and SOPs
• Report bugs and new feature proposals to the CCB

Qualifications:
Must have an active TS/SCI security clearance with lifestyle and CI polygraph.
Must have an active Sec + IAD 2 certification
Required Technologies & Skillsets:

• Familiar with Kubernetes (K8s) Application Development and Administration
• Containerization
• Skilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage and interface management, hardening, patching and bash scripting
• Skilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and application
• Virtualization/VMware
• Cloud-Providers (AWS, AZURE or similar)
• Microservices
• Terraform
• Go
• Python
• Familiar with GitLab or similar
• Familiar with Helm Charts
• Strong communication skills, self starter with the ability to work independently and in a team environment on new features, bug fixes and troubleshooting

Preferred Technologies, Skillsets & Certificates:

• CKA Certification or Similar (Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer or Certified Kubernetes Security)
• GitOPS
• CI/CD
• Unit Testing
• Ingress/Egress
• Networking