DevOps Engineer

Why WWT?

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

WWT was founded in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri. We employ more than 10,000 people globally and closed nearly $20 billion in revenue in 2023. We have an inclusive culture and believe our core values are the key to company and employee success. WWT is proud to have been included on the FORTUNE '100 Best Places to Work For' list 12 years in a row!

Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!

Location:

St Louis, MO and Springfield, VA

What will you be doing?
As a DevOps Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO.

This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team the DevOps Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment.

The Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Automate and optimize service deployments
Integrate with enterprise authentication services
Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
Administer production, staging and development environments
Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
Manage operational readiness board

present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
Aligns to the customer's strategies
Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest
On-call support may be required

QUALIFICATIONS:
5+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
3+ years of related systems programming experience
Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly
Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (i.e., Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)
Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes
Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e., IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

Want to learn more about our Government Services team? Check us out on our platform:
https://www.wwt.com/public-sector
https://www.wwt.com/government-services

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:
Health and Wellbeing: Heath, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
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