Senior DevOps Engineer
Core
Designing, implementing, and maintaining secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure for mission-critical data platforms processing billions of events per day for the Department of War.
Role type
Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineering)
Builds
Mission-critical data platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and secure infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments.
Domain
Defense technology, AI/ML data fusion, distributed data systems.
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitOps), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), data streaming (Kafka, Flink), observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), Helm, Java/Go programming, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), DevSecOps practices.
Preferred skills
Experience with multi-cluster topologies, service mesh (Istio), data engineering fundamentals (ETL/ELT), writing automation tooling.
Technologies
Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, Flink, Pinot, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Loki, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Helm, Istio, AWS, Azure, Java, Go.
Responsibilities
Design and maintain secure Kubernetes infrastructure; build and improve CI/CD pipelines; develop Infrastructure as Code; collaborate with software engineers to improve deployability; optimize data streaming pipelines; implement platform observability; apply DevSecOps practices; manage Helm charts and service mesh configurations; support operations across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments; write automation tooling in Java or Go.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC