Sr. DevOps Engineer

Knowledge Management, Inc. (KMI) has the leadership and experience to deliver innovative technology, logistics and management solutions to meet real mission requirements. KMI is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) that specializes in Logistics, Warehouse Services, Distance Learning/Training, Enterprise Solutions, Financial Management Support, Program Management, Intelligence AnalysisThreat Assessment, and Data Analytics/Operations Research. Since 1998, our solutions and services have helped our clients improve performance, drive cost and operational effectives, and map technology needs for tomorrow's requirements.

Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote with ability to travel to support case work as required. Some travel requirements may be outside of the USA.

Position: 1

Duration: Multi-year program

Start date: ASAP

Security Clearance: Active US Treasury Public Trust preferred. Anyone with an active DOD clearance, would be processed for a DHS Public Trust.

Salary: Please provide your salary requirement

Knowledge Management, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, build, and maintain the infrastructure and automation that powers our client's secure, mission-critical applications. This role will heavily focus on implementing best practice CI/CD principles within a GitHub Enterprise environment and eventually migrating the migration of their systems to a Kubernetes cluster-based architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, and manage robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Enterprise, ensuring best practices for build, test, and deployment automation.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure provisioning, and enhance platform observability.
• Coordinate with the production support team to deploy and maintain enterprise applications on cloud-agnostic microservices architecture.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to manage cloud resources and ensure consistency and security.
• Establish and maintain monitoring, observability, and alerting using tools like Grafana and Prometheus to ensure high availability and performance.
• Automate infrastructure deployments and manage version control and configuration management tools.
• Develop and implement Git branching strategies that gatekeep production deployments and ensure code quality.
• Lead the strategy and execution for migrating applications and services to Kubernetes, enhancing scalability and reliability.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer in a senior-level role.
• Expert-level proficiency with GitHub Enterprise and building/managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies, specifically Docker.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog.

Desired Qualifications:

• Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster administration, networking, and storage.
• An existing US Treasury Public Trust or equivalent Federal security clearance.

Benefits: All full-time employees are eligible to participate in our benefits programs:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
• Group Term Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• Short and Long-term disability insurance

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

E-Verify Statement. Knowledge Management, Inc. participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, KMI is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision. Knowledge Management, Inc. will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Disability Statement. If you have a disability and need reasonable accommodation or assistance at any point in the application or onboarding process, please email us at marie@knowledgemanagement.com.