Sr. DevOps Engineer - Federal Customer (Active TS-SCI Security Clearance required)
Dell Technologies2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform infrastructure for a federal customer.
- Automate deployment and configuration of operating systems, applications, and Kubernetes platform components.
- Manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
- Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for deploying containerized applications to Kubernetes.
- Secure Kubernetes environments through access controls, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and network security practices.
- Diagnose and resolve complex performance, resource-utilization, infrastructure, and application-level issues across the Kubernetes stack.
- Troubleshoot networking, operating-system, distributed-system, and platform problems.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, project management, operations, security teams, and other stakeholders.
- Lead technical initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance and ability to maintain access as required by the program.
- Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring Kubernetes and containerized applications.
- Working knowledge of identity and authentication technologies including IdM, OIDC, KeyCloak, and Authentik.
- Experience containerizing applications with Docker or Podman.
- Strong programming experience in one or more of Python, Go, or Rust.
- Expertise securing Kubernetes environments, including RBAC, Pod Security Policies or Admission Controllers, vulnerability scanning, Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and network security.
- Ability to diagnose Kubernetes performance issues, optimize resource utilization, and tune clusters.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Tekton, Argo Workflows, or similar CI/CD platforms.
- Ability to implement CI/CD pipelines using practices such as GitOps.
- Understanding of networking concepts including bonding, bridging, VLANs, firewalls, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of Linux, BSD, and UNIX operating systems.
- Preferred experience with filesystems, disaster recovery, local LLM deployment, iptables, eBPF, tcpdump, and Wireshark.
- Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, mentoring, ownership, adaptability, and continuous-learning skills.
Benefits
- On-site work five days per week in Chantilly, Virginia.
- Dynamic and collaborative work environment supporting professional growth.
- Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
- Supportive and inclusive team culture that values diversity and individual contributions.
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About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies builds PCs, monitors, and peripherals for consumers and enterprises, and provides servers, storage, networking, and edge solutions for data centers. It sells hardware, software, and support services through direct, channel, and online models to organizations of all sizes and the public sector. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, it includes the former EMC storage business and operates globally across client computing and infrastructure markets.