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System Engineer 3 / 2 - (Kubernetes, Linux, Ansible)
Laurel, Maryland
Position ID: 01-01-006-SE-SE2OR3
Location: Laurel, Maryland
Description
Operations and system administration for Kubernetes platform infrastructure, stakeholder collaboration with development and product teams to understand operational project requirements and feature specifications, image templating, create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, perform regular system scanning and patching to maintain enterprise system security compliance and maintain updates in IC reporting tools, facilitate deployment upgrades across operational, staging and development environments, mitigation of operational issues affecting end users, maintain and update monitoring tools, service and health checks, determine the team's support coverage across applicable supported hours and prioritize monitoring tasks, manage the POC support lists and OSOPs, establish and maintain test environments that mimic operational configurations and end to end scenarios, assist with analysis of test coverage to determine gaps and improvements, assist with automation of manual test cases and procedures, system regression, security, performance, customer focused and integration testing, assist with defect identification and reporting with reproducible steps, schedule and communicate system outages with the team and external customers/partners, collaborate and discuss outage plans with the Ops Officers, lead and collaborate with stakeholders for internal and external product documentation, i.e. User Agreements, Customer/Partner User Guides, SOPs, Admin Guide, etc., research and study trends with related technologies, tools, etc. and provide recommendations for streamlining processes, provide metrics and reporting on service requests, conduct performance benchmarking, monitor customer support desk tickets, troubleshoot, resolve from simple to complex, and perform customer on-boarding (provision new project resources).
Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
SE-2 Qualifications
Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Salary Range: **$176k-$247k (Annually)
Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
www.akina-inc.com/careers
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System Engineer 3 / 2 - (Kubernetes, Linux, Ansible)
Laurel, Maryland
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Position ID: 01-01-006-SE-SE2OR3
Location: Laurel, Maryland
Description
Operations and system administration for Kubernetes platform infrastructure, stakeholder collaboration with development and product teams to understand operational project requirements and feature specifications, image templating, create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, perform regular system scanning and patching to maintain enterprise system security compliance and maintain updates in IC reporting tools, facilitate deployment upgrades across operational, staging and development environments, mitigation of operational issues affecting end users, maintain and update monitoring tools, service and health checks, determine the team's support coverage across applicable supported hours and prioritize monitoring tasks, manage the POC support lists and OSOPs, establish and maintain test environments that mimic operational configurations and end to end scenarios, assist with analysis of test coverage to determine gaps and improvements, assist with automation of manual test cases and procedures, system regression, security, performance, customer focused and integration testing, assist with defect identification and reporting with reproducible steps, schedule and communicate system outages with the team and external customers/partners, collaborate and discuss outage plans with the Ops Officers, lead and collaborate with stakeholders for internal and external product documentation, i.e. User Agreements, Customer/Partner User Guides, SOPs, Admin Guide, etc., research and study trends with related technologies, tools, etc. and provide recommendations for streamlining processes, provide metrics and reporting on service requests, conduct performance benchmarking, monitor customer support desk tickets, troubleshoot, resolve from simple to complex, and perform customer on-boarding (provision new project resources).
- Image templating.
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Perform regular system scanning and patching to maintain Enterprise system security compliance and maintain updates in IC reporting tools.
- Facilitate deployment upgrades across Operational, Staging and Development environments.
- Mitigation of Operational issues affecting end users.
- Maintain and update monitoring tools, service and health checks.
- Determine the Team's support coverage across applicable supported hours and prioritize monitoring tasks.
- Manage the POC support lists and OSOPs.
- Establish and maintain test environments that mimic operational configurations and end to end scenarios.
- Assist with analysis of test coverage to determine gaps and improvements.
- Assist with automation of manual test cases and procedures.
- System regression, security, performance, customer focused and integration testing.
- Assist with defect identification and reporting with reproducible steps.
- Schedule and communicate system outages with the team and external customers/partners.
- Collaborate and discuss outage plans with the Ops Officers.
- Lead and collaborate with stakeholders for internal and external product documentation (i.e. User Agreements, Customer/Partner User Guides, SOPs, Admin Guide, etc.).
- Research and study trends with related technologies, tools, etc. and provide recommendations for streamlining processes.
- Provide metrics and reporting on service requests.
- Conduct performance benchmarking.
- Monitor customer support desk tickets, troubleshoot, resolve from simple to complex.
- Perform customer on-boarding (provision new project resources).
- Skilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage and interface management, hardening and patching.
- Skilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and applications.
- Virtualization/VMware (AWS, AZURE or similar).
- Bash scripting.
- Kubernetes (K8s)/containerization.
- Skilled in system scanning, patching and monitoring.
- Familiar with GitLab or similar.
- Familiar with Jira or similar.
- Strong communication skills, self-starter who can work independently or with team to debug and resolve issues.
- CWIP Level I required at start; Level II required within 6 months.
- CKA Certification or similar
- GitOps
- CI-CD
- Unit-Testing
- Python
- Ingress/Egress
- Networking
- Writing and maintaining test cases, test procedures, test plans and test reports
- Test automation and test automation tools and frameworks
- Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and applications.
Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
SE-2 Qualifications
Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Salary Range: **$176k-$247k (Annually)
- The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
www.akina-inc.com/careers
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Salary : $176,000 - $247,000