At RED GATE we do everything we can to serve our clients:

Using the right technical skills, unique methodologies, best practices, and integrated technology, we help clients implement bold solutions. New approaches to emerging and evolving threats. Non-traditional ways to overcome entrenched obstacles. Advantage through opportunity. If you have a serious challenge or problem, we can help you solve it.  The below job description provides details on how this role will help to serve our clients.

The Red Gate Group is seeking a TS/SCI cleared Site Reliability Engineer to support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Reston, VA.

As a Site Reliability Engineer on our team, you’ll work with the DoD on the development of more robust systems by building a 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.  You'll work on development of tools and processes to drive DevSecOps maturity by automating infrastructure provisioning, software builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments. This is your chance to leverage your expertise in building enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Rancher, AWS, and Azure. You will apply advanced consulting skills or extensive technical expertise; full industry knowledge to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. You will use your development experience to write infrastructure as code and deploy using industry best practices like GitOps and CI/CD in a hybrid cloud environment. You will lead efforts to incorporate open-source tools, automation, and cloud resources to cut down on tedious, boring tasks and free up the team’s developers to do what they do best – innovate. Join us as we help the DoD.  

Required Qualifications: 

• Experience working in Linux environments, while supporting production enterprise applications  

• Experience with large distributed, highly available environments and container technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes 

• Experience with declarative Infrastructure as Code tools, including Puppet, Terraform, and Ansible 

• Experience with GitOps and CI/CD tools including ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, or Jenkins  

• Experience with Python, Microservices, Serverless, MLOps, AIOps, and Bash shell scripting. 

• Ability to dive deep into all aspects of the stack to identify and fix problems and troubleshoot.  

• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification, including Security+  

   

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience with Big Data stack using Hadoop, Spark, Accumulo or MongoDB, and Solr or Elasticsearch 

• Experience of software development processes and code management tools and processes 

• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana or other monitoring tools.  

• Knowledge of full stack infrastructure, rollout management of stack, differences between managing Kubernetes and Cloudera stack 

• Ability to collaborate across multiple teams, in an organized manner. 

• Ability to prioritize tasks, communicate effectively, and can raise risks to senior leadership and balance team skillsets.  

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