Job Description:

The Cyber Dev Ops Engineer will serve as a Kubernetes administrator is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and deploying applications in a Kubernetes environment. The duties are researching for automation, troubleshooting issues, and mentoring the team members. They promote security, efficiency, scalability of core services and capabilities. In addition, the administrator is responsible for:

· Installing, configuring, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.

· Developing Kubernetes-based solutions.

· Improving Kubernetes infrastructure.

· Creating the container infrastructure platform

· Designing and implementing solutions

· Enhancing delivery systems with Continuous Integration

· Coordinating with other internal teams to meet goals

· Deploying and monitoring applications in a Kubernetes environment

· Configuring hardware, services, and managing settings and storage

· Improving the monitoring and alert systems

· Troubleshooting issues and solving problems where needed

· Documentation and support

Additional needed skills

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

· Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Basic Qualifications for Level 3:

· Current DoD Secret Security Clearance

· Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (i.e., Security+, etc.)

· BS with 5 years of experience; MS with 3 years of experience; or 9 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

· Strong understanding containerization concepts – Building container images, dockerfiles, private registries, ansible builder, docker, podman, containerd, runc

· IaC (Infrastructure as code) experience – Ansible Automation Platform, Execution Environments, CI/CD, GitOps, etc

· Strong understanding of Linux operating systems

· Scripting – Python, Bash, etc

· Understanding of basic networking concepts

· Experience with hypervisors(Not cloud based) – ESXI, Harvester, Hyper-V. ETC

· Ability to quickly learn and handle strict deadlines

Basic Qualifications for Level 4:

· In addition to Level 3 basic qualifications

· Current DoD Secret Security Clearance

· Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (i.e., Security+, etc.)

· BS with 9 years of experience; MS with 7 years of experience; or 13 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

· Strong understanding of on prem disconnected Kubernetes(Not cloud based) – Helm, custom deployments, Container Network Interfaces ,Container Storage Interfaces, general resources

· Knowledge of container security concepts – Pod Security Standards, Pod Security Admission, Pod Security Context, etc

· Experience in a disconnected multi-cluster environment

· Ability to quickly learn and handle strict deadlines

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with one or more of the following technologies: Longhorn, Neuvector, cert-manager, Metallb, Hashicorp Vault, ZARF. etc

· Experience with RKE2 Kubernetes distribution

· RHCSA/RHCE Certified

· Experience writing Golang applications/Tools

· CKA/CKS/CKAD Certified