Enterprise - Senior DevOps Engineer - Git, Linux, Kubernetes

Erias Ventures was founded to serve its customers with an entrepreneurial mindset. We value creative problem-solving, open communication, and empowering our employees to make decisions and put forth new ideas.

Our staff includes technical experts working across multiple disciplines, bringing diverse perspectives to every project. We are seeking engineers who wish to grow their careers and want to become part of a technically strong and growth-oriented company focused on bringing innovative solutions to the difficult mission problems facing our customers.

Description
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment, and debugging for modern mission applications.

• Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment, and debugging
• Build a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production
• Develop & maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies
• Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
• Set up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
• Maintain/upgrade/ patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence / Jira)
• Create, assist, and implement design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployments
• Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated
• Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements
• Assist with support and operations where necessary
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored, or accessed
• Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby,
  Perl, and Java
• Proficient with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies
• Proficient in automating network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking
• Ability to have a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture
• Understanding of SLA requirements and role of high availability architectures, performance optimization, and monitoring techniques
• Act in the capacity to support deployment and operations when necessary
• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes
• Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
• Experience working cross functionally across multiple teams

Clearance
A current Top-Secret/SCI with polygraph security clearance is required. Candidates cannot be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance under this position.
 
Experience
Bachelor's degree or higher is required in either Engineering (i. e., Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science with a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field).

Required skills:

• Must be fluent with Git
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 617/8, RHCSNRHCE CentOS)
• Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency, and performance
• 10+ years working in an Agile dev environment (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)
• Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo, Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment
• Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, ActiveMQ, Redis, APC, etc.)
• Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus). Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance, etc.
• 10+ years of system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read the code and understand the coding logic to assist in troubleshooting
• 10+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for opt