Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a DevOps SRE to join our team at our client’s site in Reston, VA.

Security Clearance Required: Top Secret

As a site reliability engineer on our team, you’ll work with the DoD on the development of more robust systems by building resilient infrastructure. You’ll build in redundancy, implement monitoring tools, and automate wherever possible. You’ll reduce toil by scripting routine tasks and automating self-repair. This is your chance to leverage your expertise in Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS Cloud Migration, Cloudera, and IaC, while assisting junior engineers and broadening your knowledge base. 

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience working in Linux environments
• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting, triaging and resolving issues related to CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness in production Enterprise environments
• Ability to build or modify Ansible playbooks with Bash scripts
• Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, Cloudera, AWS, Jenkins, or RHEL Systems
• Experience working with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and creating solutions to complex problems within a collaborative team environment
• Active DoD 8570, Level II Security Certification, including Security+

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with Python/Go, Microservices, Serverless, MLOps, AIOps, Cloudera, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Big Data stack using Hadoop, Spark, Accumulo or MongoDB, and Solr or Elasticsearch
• Experience with software development processes and code management tools and processes
• Experience with declarative Infrastructure as Code tools, including Puppet, Terraform, and Ansible
• Experience with GitOps and CI/CD tools like ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, Jenkins
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills

 Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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