Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LMI, a trusted government contractor, is seeking a driven and innovative Platform Engineer to support the deployment and maintenance of IronSled, a DevSecOps product tailored for government-authorized environments. The role involves engaging in the entire service lifecycle, supporting system design, and maintaining services to ensure reliability and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement using an agile methodology
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
- Embrace the DevSecOps culture with a commitment to automate what can be automated
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Practice sustainable incident response and actively participate in retrospectives
Skills
- Minimum of a Secret clearance required
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 7-10 years' experience as a DevSecOps Engineer
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience programming in Python. Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive
- Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
- Demonstrated experience building continuous, automated build and deploy pipelines
- Demonstrated experience in conditional procedure of build and deploy pipeline based on security scans of source and artifact
- Capable of working with software development team and platform infrastructure team to provide meaningful guidance to both for code development and deployment
- In-depth knowledge of version control of release artifacts to facilitate upgrade rollout and rollback
- Strong understanding of containerization of web applications
- Understanding and familiarity with container orchestration engines such as K8s (EKS, AKS, GKE, Kops, OpenShift)
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD
- Experience with bash shell scripting
- Agile, Lean, DevOps, Cloud, Security+ or other professional certification
- Familiarity with DoD IT standards and federal security standards strongly desired
- Knowledge of the Army software development process and its technologies
- Hands-on experience using agile software development methodologies
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work well on a cross-functional agile team
- Experience working in a consultant/client environment
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