Systems Engineer-IT / DevOps Engineer Stf

Location: Herndon, VA (Springfield, VA- after the team stands up there)
Security clearance : TS/SCI with CI Poly
Schedule: 5-8s - 40

Program Description:

A Government Contracting Customer provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/SE Linux based HPC services throughout the lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers. This team embraces innovation and are committed to a culture of continuous, standards-driven process improvement and assimilation of industry best practices. The program provides key supercomputing capabilities for solving important problems in science and technology. This work involves working on cutting edge HPC technologies to ensure that scientists and engineers will be able to fully utilize modern HPC systems.

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer familiar with Unix/Linux/SELinux for a current Program. The program provides initial deployment and coordination of initial site support for DC-MLS deployments which include HPC programs and other contracts as well as for our DC-MLS Core team. Immediate focus on standing up admin and console networks at site within next few months to support ATO.

Summary:

You will be an active member of the Enterprise MLS team supporting multiple current and future contracts including the HPC contract.

The Enterprise MLS team is responsible for the development of documentation, automated deployment and other scripting, processes, and other support necessary to deploy the Enterprise MLS configurations and working with the sites including HPC and other deployments to provide full spectrum of DevOps support for the Enterprise MLS product and the implementations on the various contracts. You will work closely with the contract teams, users, and government to ensure the Enterprise MLS configurations meet requirements and fully support each program s needs.

An individual should have demonstrated problem-solving ability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Deploy through Red Hat (RH) Satellite and Ansible automation, develop, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux/SE Linux MLS configurations
• Install software libraries functioning in RHEL/SE Linux environment to support Enterprise MLS deployments
• Monitor and modify Enterprise MLS in a highly configuration managed, automated, secure, agile and highly flexible environment
• Engage 3 ^rd party vendors to translate and integrate manual steps into deployment process
• Apply best practices in DevOps engineering, delivering projects on time and with excellent quality
• Provide support to staff and end users to resolve Enterprise MLS related issues
• Create and/or modify existing Enterprise MLS DevOps to correct errors and/or improve deployment capabilities

Basic Qualifications: (Required)

• 5+ years of a combination of SELinux, scripting/software development, and configuration management experience
• Proficiency in Python, Perl, Korn, Bourne/Bash, Ansible and other shell scripting
• Experience with revision control software (CVS, SVN, Git, GitLab, GitLab CI)
• Management, development of DevOps deployment automation processes
• Security+ Certification

Desired Skills:

• SE Linux experience: configuration and policy
• Experience with RH Satellite
• Experience with Lustre, NFS, and other file systems
• Experience with Ethernet networking
• Experience with RDMA communications (InfiniBand and RoCE)
• Experience with InfiniBand or RoCE high speed fabrics, including subnet management, IPoIB mechanisms, fabric topology and health monitoring and integration with MPI
• Understanding and experience working with identity management systems including LDAP and token-based authentication systems

Kaztronix is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. In addition, all human resource actions in such areas as compensation, employee benefits, transfers, layoffs, training and development are to be administered objectively, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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