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DevOps Software Engineer

Base-2 Solutions

Bethesda, USA

Full-time

Senior · 8+ years experience

Onsite

$10,000

Discovered 1 months ago

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Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a DevOps Software Engineer to join a high-energy team supporting the DIA-NMEC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role involves building and deploying a cutting-edge technology stack as part of a 10-year program modernizing the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P). The position requires collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to deliver mission-critical capabilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain a full-stack, containerized microservices architecture.
Support systems administration, installation, and configuration.
Promote adoption of DevOps best practices across cross-functional engineering teams.
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.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years with a Master's degree.
Strong Linux proficiency.
Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes.
Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab.
Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
Demonstrated success working in cross-functional engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience operating systems at scale.
Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
Development experience with Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Experience supporting enterprise or production systems.
Familiarity with Kafka or other messaging systems (AMQP, JMS).
Experience with Kubernetes monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
Experience with GPU-based Kubernetes.
Experience with SALT for deployment automation.
Experience with Helm / Helmfile.
Experience with Nexus.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience.

Master's degree with 6+ years of experience.

Required Certifications

None specified.

Required Security Clearance

Active Top Secret/SCI

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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