DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Location: ONSITE - Oak Ridge, TN

Salary: $105-115k/year

 

Position Summary

The US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE OSTI) is seeking a DevOps Engineer Evangelist who will support our web applications while receiving security-focused training designed to progress the role into DevSecOps.

This role will be responsible for implementing DevOps/DevSecOps best practices across the enterprise in support of OSTI’s transition to a modernized web application platform powered by containerized applications, providing technical guidance to development teams, and improving agility and delivery speed and driving cultural change towards a DevSecOps mindset.

 The position will primarily develop and implement a strategy to migrate OSTI’s current application development process and applications to a more DevSecOps-styled deployment process by formalizing policies, procedures, and practices using DevSecOps tooling to deliver OSTI’s web applications. 

US Citizenship is required.

 

Position-Specific Duties

·         Maintain documentation/notes on software builds and installs and develop documented processes and procedures for migrating Java and Python applications to containerized DevSecOps deployment processes

·         Define and implement development best practices and standards within the organization and to transition current organizational applications to these standards.

·         Automate systems administration tasks utilizing open-source configuration management tools as part of a deployment pipeline.

·         Identify automation opportunities to improve DevSecOps operations, make recommendations to management, and lead the implementation of improvements, such as pipelines, container development, etc.

·         Review architecture and offer recommendations for improvements, lead implementation efforts on containerized infrastructure.

·         Embrace continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.

Train and document for junior-level staff on these processes.

·         CI/CD technologies – GitLab.

Containerization tool: Red Hat OpenShift

·         Configuration Management -  Helm, Kustimize, etc.

·         Work with team to adopt and optimize a hybrid-cloud software-defined infrastructure and infrastructure as code paradigm

·         Identify and document IT best practices that will improve the systems deployment function

  

Education, Training, Experience

·         Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical subjects or equivalent combination of education and experience.

·         1-3 years of experience managing DevSecOps Systems (including Jenkins, Gitlab, etc.)

·         1-3 years of experience managing container infrastructure using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes/Docker

·         1-3 years utilizing co...