At RedDrum, we solve the world’s most complex data challenges. Our Mission is to develop cutting-edge data solutions that protect our nation’s freedoms and expand our global intelligence capabilities.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive Kubernetes experience to work in a team environment that will help build, automate, and monitor the infrastructure platform for a large data management application.

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Responsibilities:**

As part of a team of system administrators, network engineers, and analysts you will contribute to building an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform. You will also work closely with other engineering teams to better understand their software enabling you to adapt the data management solution to their needs.
This job is 100% remote with possible travel on a quarterly basis.

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Requirements:**

The ideal candidate is a technology generalist (who may have demonstrated significant specialization in previous positions) with deep knowledge of Kubernetes both in the datacenter and the cloud who can comfortably and confidently work with and/or lead an experienced team comprised of developers and engineers with disparate backgrounds.

You must have:

• TS/SCI clearance

• At least 7 years of experience keeping online production environments operating at peak performance on bare metal, in the cloud, and in containers with at least 3 years of that experience focused on DevOps and service-based systems engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience managing production Kubernetes infrastructure with exposure to the use of cloud vendor Kubernetes solutions such as EKS, AKS, and GKE.

• Extensive experience automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Python and Bash preferred), with configuration management tools, infrastructure orchestration tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), and automated imaging tools (Packer)

• Experience automating public cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

• Experience using and optimizing monitoring and trending systems (Prometheus, Grafana), log aggregation systems (ELK, Splunk), and their agents.

• Deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipeline architecture (Jenkins, GitLab, Drone) including deployments into Kubernetes environments

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Desired Skills:**

• Kubernetes
• Helm
• Docker/Podman
• AWS Certification
• Understanding of software performance and trade-offs
• Spring Boot
• Private cloud
• Microservices
• Hadoop
• Accumulo

Benefits:

• 401k Match of up to 6% of an employees’ salary.
• 100% Employer paid medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance for employees and their dependents.
• A generous PTO offering that employees can use for vacations, holidays, and sick time. The PTO amount is flexible based on what the candidate prefers.
• Up to $5000/year for approved education and training expenses/time.
• Referral bonuses of up to $10,000 depending on clearance level.
• Recognition for excellent performance and customer recognition, birthdays, and anniversaries in the company.

RedDrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer.