Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology, delivers agile IT and Intelligence solutions. Combining small-team flexibility with global scale, IEX leverages emerging technologies to provide innovative, user-focused solutions that empower organizations and end users to operate smarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments.

Job Description:

The DevOps Engineer will directly serve and assist end-users. Your work will be produced in the context of DevSecOps practices, including but not limited to continuous development, deployment, integration, and monitoring. This role is hybrid with 3 days onsite / 2 remote.

Job Duties Include (but not limited to):

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Provides infrastructure and systems integration for DevOps environment
• Designs and maintains roles and playbooks in development, test, and production environments to enforce system standardization and to maintain configuration management
• Leads efforts to mitigate system obsolescence through migrations and upgrades. Creates and maintains system-lifecycle documentation

Required Skills & Experience:

• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Strong knowledge with Git, GitLab, and Jenkins pipeline development
• Experience with Helm Charts
• Experience with Gitops using ArgoCD and Gitlab
• Experience with Kubernetes clusters (Docker)
• Experience creating and automating the deployment of containers into the cluster using Helm
• Experience running Kubernetes (K8) workloads
• Proficient understanding of Kubernetes services with container-based deployments
• Experience creating CI/CD pipelines using tools like (GitLab, GetHub, Jenkins etc.)
• Support performance test automation integration into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Remediate vulnerabilities in CI/CD pipeline tools and software along with container hardening.
• Experience with authentication protocols such as (e.g. OAuth2/Keycloak)
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Design, develop, build, and maintain, Puppet, Docker, Gitlab, and JIRA servers.
• Spin up servers and Docker contained databases, as needed.
• Design and build server clusters with Elasticsearch

Desired Skills:

• Experience working with the Department of Defense
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7
• Docker
• Elasticsearch
• Cisco
• VMware
• Python
• Microsoft PowerShell
• SQL

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or related experience

Security Clearance:

• An active TS/SCI security clearance is REQUIRED. Candidates without this clearance will not be considered. 

Benefits:

• National Health, vision and dental plans
• 20 days of PTO and 11 paid holidays
• Life Insurance
• Short – and long-term disability plans
• 401(K) retirement plans
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Relocation opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans