Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Striveworks is a company that helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of product deployments, ensuring seamless integration and configuration of software solutions while maintaining and optimizing cloud and on-premises environments.
Responsibilities
- Automating IaC to manage virtual machines and deploy containers, services, and other infrastructure; applying your expertise to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
- Working with platform developers, other DevOps teammates, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
- Software deployments to commercial and, later, unclassified, CUI, and classified Department of Defense (DOD) networks
- Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults
- Monitoring, automating, and improving software reliability, performance, and availability for various projects
- Acting as a liaison between platform developers and customer-facing teams, taking on operational tasks to ensure the efficient functioning of Striveworks' solutions
- Working alongside a team of software engineers and data scientists to help them deploy and operate their work as functional products
- Providing guidance and leadership to junior DevOps team members
- Contributing to the success of mission-critical systems within national security and commercial clients
- Wearing multiple hats and stepping into vacuums where improvements are needed
- Exploring new technologies and solutions
Skills
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Python and/or Golang programming, or other general purpose programming languages
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Microservice deployment in Kubernetes
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or OpenStack)
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
- The ability to work cross functionally to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
- The ability to respond professionally and competently to incident reports and triage critical system faults
- Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
- Experience with US federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and ICD 503
- Experience with software deployments to on-premises and cloud-based unclassified, CUI, and classified networks within the DOD
- Experience with DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD for the administration and deployment of GPU-enabled servers
- Experience deploying or maintaining Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects
- Experience with network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native applications and services in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited impact (DDIL) environments
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
- HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Equity grants
- Cash bonuses
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