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<div>ARA is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift and you need to have a solid understanding of DevOps principles, container orchestration, and cloud-native application development. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth deployment and scalability of applications within OpenShift environments.
Senior DevOps Engineer Key Responsibilities:
<ul><li>OpenShift Management: Design, deploy, and manage OpenShift clusters to support containerized applications</li>
<li>CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes</li>
<li>Automation: Develop and implement automation scripts to optimize infrastructure deployment, scaling, and maintenance using tools like Ansible, Jenkins, or GitLab CI</li>
<li>Monitoring &amp; Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting tools to ensure high availability and performance of OpenShift environments. Troubleshoot production issues and resolve them efficiently</li>
<li>Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA, and operations teams to integrate DevOps solutions into the development lifecycle</li>
<li>Cloud Integration: Manage hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, ensuring seamless integration between OpenShift and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP</li>
<li>Security &amp; Compliance: Implement security best practices for containers and Kubernetes, ensure compliance with industry standards, and conduct regular security audits</li>
<li>Performance Optimization: Tune application performance, load balancing, and scaling strategies within OpenShift clusters</li>
<li>Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of infrastructure, systems, and processes</li>
</ul>Offer is contingent upon contract award.
Senior DevOps Engineer Position Requirements:
<ul><li>Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI security clearance</li>
<li>Bachelors degree in a related field along with 8-10 years of relevant work experience OR 16-18 years of years of experience in lieu of a degree</li>
<li>Experience with OpenShift: 3+ years of hands-on experience managing and administering OpenShift clusters</li>
<li>Kubernetes Expertise: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, deployments, and associated tools</li>
<li>Containerization: Proficiency in Docker, container orchestration, and microservices architecture</li>
<li>Automation Tools: Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or similar IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools</li>
<li>CI/CD Pipelines: Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Minikube, or similar tools</li>
<li>Scripting and Programming: Proficient in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Java, Terraform or Groovy</li>
<li>Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and their integration with OpenShift</li>
<li>Monitoring &amp; Logging: Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and logging tools like ELK stack or Splunk</li>
<li>Version Control: Proficiency in Git and experience with version control practices in a team environment</li>
<li>Security: Knowledge of container security best practices, including vulnerability scanning and network policies</li>
</ul>Senior DevOps Engineer Preferred Qualifications:
<ul><li>An active TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance</li>
<li>OpenShift Certified Administrator (OCA) or Kubernetes certification</li>
<li>Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud architectures</li>
<li>Understanding of networking in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments</li>
<li>Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS</li>
<li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to incident resolution</li>
<li>Experience in implementing DoD STIG&rsquo;s and RMF Assessment Knowledge</li>
</ul>Who is ARA?
Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,300 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.
ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation &amp; experimentation are the norm. The motto, &ldquo;Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit&rdquo; sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in the company.
To find out more about what the Intelligence, Surveillance &amp; Reconnaissance Division has to offer, visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/benefits/
<h4 class="jobSectionHeader">Experience</h4>
Required
<ul><li>8 - 10 years: Relevant Work Experience</li>
</ul><h4 class="jobSectionHeader">Education</h4>
Preferred
<ul><li>Bachelors or better</li>
</ul>Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities 
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