DevOps Engineer
Argonne National Laboratory4 months ago
Lemont, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$70k - $109k/yr
Responsibilities
- Administer Kubernetes clusters and assist users with application deployment.
- Build and maintain infrastructure and science-service deployment pipelines across development, staging, pre-production, and production environments.
- Provision cloud resources and automate CI/CD workflows using tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Python, and GitOps practices.
- Deploy, manage, and operate managed Kubernetes clusters, including node-group lifecycle management, upgrades, networking integrations, and multi-environment promotion.
- Manage image registries such as Harbor and implement security controls defined by the Cybersecurity team.
- Configure instrumentation, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and KPIs for infrastructure and core services.
- Provide primary operational support for production applications, diagnose platform problems, and drive continuous improvement.
- Coordinate with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems and support DevOps or cloud engineering task management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field.
- At least 2 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer and/or Cloud Engineer.
- Previous team-lead experience with the ability to perform task management for DevOps or cloud engineering teams.
- Working knowledge of cloud architecture, managed services from at least one cloud provider, Kubernetes administration, Unix fundamentals, networking, and application deployment strategies.
- Experience with CI/CD, code review, GitHub or GitLab, monitoring tools such as Nagios, Grafana, and Prometheus, and Terraform or OpenTofu in multi-account AWS environments.
- Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, including App of Apps and ApplicationSets patterns, and familiarity with Tanka, Jsonnet, or comparable configuration-as-code approaches.
- Experience or familiarity with Kong Gateway, AWS Secrets Manager, External Secrets Operator, or comparable Kubernetes-native solutions.
- Ability to identify performance issues and requirements, implement solutions, organize and prioritize work, and operate effectively with minimal supervision.
- U.S. citizenship is required to perform the essential functions of the position and comply with federal regulations and contract requirements.
- Exposure to high-speed research networks such as ESnet or Internet2 is preferred.
- Ability to model Argonne’s core values of Impact, Safety, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork.
Benefits
- Hybrid-remote work arrangement with employees typically working more than 60% remotely and some onsite days.
- Regular, full-time employment.
- Comprehensive employee benefits are included as part of the total rewards package.
- Employment is contingent on a background check, and the position may require government access authorization after hire.
About Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory that conducts research in energy, climate, materials, computing, and national security. Headquartered in Lemont, Illinois and founded in 1946, it is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC and operates major user facilities such as the Advanced Photon Source and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Work is funded by federal programs with partnerships and technology transfer to industry and academia.