Automation Engineer - Clearance

Company: Associates Systems LLC
Location: Riverdale
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

W2 or 1099
US Citizens only.
Secret Clearance Required

The Platform Manager will manage a Platform as a Service (PaaS). As a Platform Manager you will provide technical leadership for the Platform Reliability Engineers and work directly with the Product Owner, the Development teams and the DoD Platform One team, to provide a PaaS environment where classified software development can proceed at the speed of relevance to counter the Nation's adversaries and maintain technological superiority. The PaaS will utilize the Kubernetes PaaS based Platform One standards and you will help the customer derive the value of these offerings to deliver the benefits of container application platforms.

Work location is in Riverdale, MD. There will be occasional travel other program sites for meetings and to provide Platform support.

This role will include, but is not limited to tasks like the following:

--- Be accountable for managing the Platform team and project health
--- Deal directly with the customer on Platform Architecture and any related software
--- Lead and guide the Platform Engineers in the update and sustainment of the PaaS inclusive of the PaaS SDK, CI/CD SDK, and the CI/CD pipeline.
--- Sustainment of the PaaS
--- Create a backlog, write user stories based on customer requirements, and manage releases
--- Coordinate Platform security assessments
--- Provide expertise for operational management of the PaaS Foundry on logging, monitoring, management, disaster recovery, security compliance/auditing, networking and storage
--- Work closely with developer teams in on-boarding, integration and troubleshooting.
Required Skills:

--- Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active DoD Secret (or higher) Security clearance
--- 2+ years of leadership experience
--- Familiarity with modern container services and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
--- Experience in an Agile DevSecOps methodology environment
--- Experience with both legacy and cloud-native environments
--- Working knowledge of networking
--- Strong experience working as part of a team collaborating on problem resolution.
--- Experience keeping short-term, tactical details of a product release in focus, clearly visible to teams and stakeholders, and under control
--- Experience with large scale production systems and dealing with production issues
--- 6+ years of experience in related fields or technologies to this job description


Desired Skills:

--- Technical expertise in Kubernetes
--- A system administration, software development or DevOps automation background.
--- Experience in scripting (Bash/Python/Go/etc)
--- Experience with configuration management (Chef/Ansible/Puppet)
--- Experience with technologies that provide networking and security in a containerized environment
--- Experience with managing software deployments utilizing gitops approaches using tools such as argocd or flux
--- Professional Certifications such as: RHCE, Linux+, MCSA, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Security +, CISSP

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