DevOps Engineer - Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Full Scope Polygraph is Required - Onsite in MD

This job is onsite in Annapolis Junction, MD with 1-2 days/week remote as project tasking allows.
Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph is required.
We have an immediate need for a DevOps Engineer to focus on DevOps engineering of an expanding collaboration workflow platform that combines COTS, open-source, and custom microservices. Responsibilities will include deploying applications; installing and configuring complex software; managing servers, networks, and technology tools; monitoring and maintaining the system for required levels of security and performance; and troubleshooting issues and outages.
 
*Candidates will be required to work a rotating pager schedule for emergency 24/7 call-in support as required (roughly one week out of every 6-8 weeks). Staff may charge 4 additional hours for the week they are on call in addition to hours worked.
 
Required technical skills include experience with:

• Linux
• AWS, MASH, and VMs
• Relational Databases (Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL)
• Networking, Firewalls, and Load Balancers
• Terraform scripting and VM provisioning
• Deployments of distributed web applications
• Docker, Docker Compose container technology
• Docker Swarm
• Public Key Infrastructure 

Desired technical skills include experience with:

• eVo, CoDE, and UWE environments
• API Gateways
• Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK) maintenance and configuration
• Python scripting and development
• Java / Spring Boot troubleshooting (error logs)
• Kafka Message Broker
• Hazelcast Memory Cache
• Kubernetes
• Zookeeper
• Nginx Web Server
• Ansible scripting
• Monitoring and Alerting
• Agile software development practices
• Jira and Confluence