DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain environment-specific Kubernetes configuration packages (such as Helm values files and YAML manifests) that adhere to STIG-aligned hardening and enforce RBAC policies for each IL environment.

• Execute and oversee secrets injection strategies utilizing FedRAMP-compliant tools (for example, AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault), ensuring alignment with automated deployment pipelines.

• Integrate CI/CD pipelines to facilitate secure, automated deployments and rollbacks of ArcGIS components and associated services, promoting ongoing agility and compliance across various environments.

• Collaborate with Kubernetes and Data Layer Engineers to guarantee version control, maintain pipeline integrity, and conduct integration testing for all containerized services deployed under WO-003.

• Partner with the WO-009 infrastructure team to deliver estimated cloud resource usage profiles for Kubernetes-based deployments in IL2, IL4, and IL5 environments.

• Provide container and workload specifications to the WO-009 infrastructure team to assist in provisioning, tagging, and prepay or reservation planning. Implement resource tagging in accordance with the program-wide cloud governance policy and reconcile actual usage against estimates offered by WO-009.

• Aid in cost optimization initiatives led by WO-009 by modifying workloads and scaling strategies based on performance and utilization feedback.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or five (5) years of equivalent experience in DevOps engineering.

• Proficiency in designing, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure management, and ensuring scalable deployments across both cloud and on-premises environments.

• Skilled in container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or AWS CodePipeline).

• Strong understanding of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), security best practices, and monitoring/logging solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) is essential.

• Experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, automating cloud infrastructure, and implementing secure, high-availability CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with microservices architecture, service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd), and observability tools is required.

• Certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert are desirable but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Offsite/Remote working conditions.

• Employment with SOSi ensures that all interested candidates will be considered without discrimination for any reason.