DevOps Engineer

• Location: Chantilly, Virginia
• Type: Contract
• Job #3261

Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Chantilly, VA
*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.

• We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our data application team.
• The ideal candidate will use experience with DevOps to automate, deploy, and manage application components, infrastructure capabilities on AWS Cloud, and containers in Kubernetes.
• The candidate will also architect and deploy DevOps pipelines, preferably in Jenkins, and manage those pipelines throughout the CI/CD process.
• Additionally, will enable automated testing for python based applications, application container builds, and deployments to Kubernetes via helm charts.
• The role also requires experience utilizing DevOps tools such as Github /Gitlab, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Sonatype Nexus as well as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Experience with CentOS/RHEL Linux System Administration/Configuration in accordance with client security requirements is also required, along with previous experience with Containerization, Kubernetes and automating deployment of capabilities to AWS is required.

Must have:

• 6 years of experience and bachelor's degree or 10 years of experience Experience with Containerization, including Kubernetes (EKS, RKE2, AKS), Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, Helm, Kubernetes Operators
• Experience with developing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing and deployment across multiple environments
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically with:
• • S3, EC2, CloudFormation, IAM, AWS OpenSearch Service, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Systems Manager Active TS/SCI FSP is required to start.