DevOps Engineer

Since its inception in 2004, Geost has been committed to solving mission-critical space domain and ISR challenges for DOD, IC and commercial customers. Our vision is to revolutionize the space-based payload market with innovative and novel designs for space, terrestrial, and airborne environments. As we grow our operations in Tucson, AZ and Chantilly, VA, we remain dedicated to the collaborative and innovative culture that is the foundation of our business. Geost is an operating unit of LightRidge Solutions.

Position Summary

Geost seeks an enthusiastic and highly capable DevOps Engineer (internal level 2) to join our expanding organization. This role will aid the overall Geost team with architecting and implementing Cloud environments and associated pipelines.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support AWS development, test, and production environments; collaborate with project leads and team members. Align with Security and IT for policy assurance.
• Develop and support pipelines that include automation and configurations for containers, data management, and release/deployment solutions for programs.
• Automate software deployments into varied and complex environments using virtual machines, container technologies, Kubernetes, Cloud environments, and bare metal servers.
• Support engagements related to assessing, refactoring and identifying opportunities for existing applications to leverage modern application architectures (e.g. containers).
• Participate in Agile sprints and associated activities.
• Ability to support on-site work.
• Ability to support travel or off-site work, as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's and/or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• An active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments.
• Experience in key AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, etc.)
• Experience in supporting DevOps tools and pipeline environments. Tools include, but are not limited to, Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory.
• Experience working with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Proficiency in Linux system administration.
• Ability to design, enable, and deliver scalable and automated strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience supporting cloud network resources such as VPC, URL proxies, private link, DNS, ACLs, Security groups, routing tables, etc.
• Background in scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include, but are not limited to: Java, Python, Terraform, and/or Bash)
• CompTIA Security+ certification (Or in pursuit of)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations.
• Experience in database administration; one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience in AWS ElastiCache for Redis
• Expertise in the Git version control system command line.
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional

Geost reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Basic life with AD&D
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)
  • Spending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental, pregnancy, and military)
• Potential bonus

Geost is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Geost is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@geost.com.

Pay Transparency: The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)