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DevOps Software Engineer

Base-2 Solutions

Bethesda, USA

Full-time

Senior · 8+ years experience

Hybrid

$10,000

Discovered 2 weeks ago

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Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared DevOps Software Engineer to help build and deploy a full-stack, containerized technology platform supporting DOMEX data discovery modernization and the centralization and standardization of OSINT tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination across the DoD and Intelligence Community. The role is primarily performed on-site in Bethesda, MD, with occasional remote work permitted for some tasks.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation to accelerate development and improve reliability.
Design and support scalable, redundant infrastructure across physical and virtual environments.
Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments for new features and evolving requirements.
Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities.
Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models.
Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities.
Collaborate with developers, software integrators, system administrators, systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.

Required Qualifications

Relevant experience meeting an applicable education and experience pathway in the equivalency section.
Strong Linux proficiency, specifically including knowledge of sysctls for Kubernetes environments and experience with FApolicyd and SELinux.
Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes, including Ingress/Gateway API, Helm chart design and build, pod disruption budgets, affinity and anti-affinity rules, external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, and ECK (Elasticsearch).
Experience with GitLab pipeline development, including integration of GitLab CI/CD components, code quality reports, and coverage and test reports.
Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
Demonstrated success working in cross-functional engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with systems at scale.
Experience or knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques.
Experience with development using Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, or Java.
Experience supporting an enterprise or production system.
Experience with Kafka or other message-passing systems, including AMQP and JMS.
Experience with Kubernetes monitoring, including Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience with GPU-based Kubernetes.
Experience with SALT for deployment automation.
Experience with Nexus.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field with 6+ years of relevant experience.

Equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

Required Certifications

At least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification, such as CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, or CISSP (or Associate).

Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification per DoD 8570 policy.

Required Security Clearance

Active Top Secret/SCI

Equal Employment Opportunity

Base-2 Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Learn more: base-2solutions.com/eeo

Compensation

Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health

100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.

100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.

100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.

100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).

100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).

401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).

11 paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).

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