Site Reliability Engineer with Security Clearance

Overview

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Intelligent Waves has grown by more than 70% in the past two years and has an outstanding new opportunity for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer professional on our team in Reston, VA.

Since 2006, Intelligent Waves has delivered mission-focused multi-domain operational expertise and innovation to the Government through high-impact technology solutions in cybersecurity, data science, enterprise network engineering, software development, and platform mission support.

Always ready. Anytime. Anywhere. Any domain.

Location : This position is based in Reston, VA

Travel : None

Remote Schedule : Will work as part of an overall team to provide needed coverage and support with remote work capability one day each week according to mission schedules.

Security Clearance : Must be a United States Citizen and hold a current TS-SCI or TS with SCI eligibility security clearance.

Employees are required to follow all company and customer site COVID-19 protocols.

Responsibilities

As a site reliability engineer on our team, you'll work with the DoD on the development of more robust systems by building a resilient infrastructure.

You'll build in redundancy, implement monitoring tools, and automate wherever possible. You'll reduce toil by scripting routine tasks and automating self-repair.

You'll work on the development of tools and processes to drive DevSecOps maturity by automating infrastructure provisioning, software builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments.

This is your chance to leverage your expertise in building enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Rancher, AWS, and Azure.

You will apply advanced consulting skills or extensive technical expertise, full industry knowledge to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.

As a DevOps Site Reliability Engineer, you will use your development experience to write infrastructure as code and deploy using industry best practices like GitOps and CI / CD in a hybrid cloud environment.

You will lead efforts to incorporate open source tools, automation, and cloud resources to cut down on tedious, boring tasks and free up the team's developers to do what they do best - innovate.

Join us as we help the DoD.

The job is 4 days on site and 1 telework day. The telework day can only be Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. You will be required to be on-call for a week, approximately every 8 weeks.

You will not have to come in onsite, but you will be responsible for facilitating any issues that arise. The team does maintenance every Monday and Wednesday from 3pm to 10pm.

They are usually done by 6pm but you have to be willing to work to 10pm if needed. The team rotates who works maintenance on those days.

If maintenance lands on your telework day, you will be required to come on site; however, you are able to choose a different telework day which could be any day of the week including Monday and Friday.

The team lead is primarily looking for a mid to senior Linux Engineer or a mid to senior Kubernetes Engineer. Salary is dependent on education level + years of relevant experience and will be determined by the DOD customer.

Qualifications

Required :

• Must hold a current TS-SCI or TS level with SCI eligibility security clearance with DOD
• Active DoD 8570, Level II Security Certification, including Security+, CEH, etc.
• Experience working in Linux environments, while supporting production enterprise applications
• Experience with large distributed, highly available environments and container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with declarative Infrastructure as Code tools, including Puppet, Terraform, and Ansible
• Experience with GitOps and CI / CD tools, including ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, or Jenkins
• Experience with Python, Microservices, Serverless, MLOps, AIOps, and Bash shell scripting
• Ability to dive deep into all aspects of the stack to identify and fix problems and troubleshoot

Desired :

• Experience with Big Data stack using Hadoop, Spark, Accumulo or MongoDB, and Solr or Elasticsearch
• Experience with software development processes and code management tools and processes
• Experience with monitoring tools, including Prometheus and Grafana
• Knowledge of full stack infrastructure, rollout management of stack, differences between managing Kubernetes and Cloudera stack
• Ability to collaborate across multiple teams, in an organized manner
• Ability to prioritize tasks, communicate effectively, and raise risks to senior leadership and balance team skillsets

Since 2006, Intelligent Waves has remained committed to providing quality engineering, operations, and intelligence solutions to our clients and it all starts with YOU.

Intelligent Waves provides a great and generous benefits package to include medical, dental and vision, paid PTO, life & disability packages.

We also invest in our employees' futures by contributing with vesting starting from DAY 1, technical training, tuition bonuses, and much, much more.

Clearance Statement : Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance. For this position, Intelligent Waves will consider only applicants with security clearances.

Intelligent Waves LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, age, gender, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity protected veteran status and individuals with disabilities, or any other class protected by applicable state or federal law.

As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, IW is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified candidates and current employees.

As part of this commitment, IW will ensure that those in need are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and / or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact.

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