COMPANY OVERVIEW

XCEL Engineering, Inc. is an award-winning small business that provides trusted information technology, engineering, consulting and project management solutions and services to federal agencies and organizations. Originally founded in 1971 by professional engineers at the University of Tennessee, XCEL was acquired in 2003 by U.S. Army and Navy veterans and in 2023 became a MartinFed company.

XCEL Engineering is a part of IT Lab Partners (ITLP) which was created to support a leading research facility in the East Tennessee region in recruiting the best and the brightest technical talent. Considering joining our impressive team today!

JOB OVERVIEW

XCEL Engineering has an opening for a DevOps Engineer to join our team of talented and diverse individuals. The selected candidate will join a DevOps Team that is responsible for facilitating DevOps for RandD projects. Together the team provides deployment, automation, monitoring, and management tool infrastructure for researchers. They advocate and promote DevOps practices to researchers who develop code as a part of their project. They operate within an Agile Scrum workflow and work with researchers to provide automation solutions.

The Team's Stack and Workflow:

• Work planning and documentation - Jira/Confluence
• Code repository, CI/CD - GitLab and GitHub
• Configuration and Package Management - Helm, Ansible and Conda
• Container Orchestration - Kubernetes, Rancher
• Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization - Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Fluentd
• Other technologies utilized/supported include, but aren't limited to Rook/Ceph, Selenium, nginx, Guard, and Checkmarx depending on supported program needs

Additional Details:

• The DevOps team is going into its 3rd year of operation, so they are still growing and maturing their stack and capabilities.

• The team optimizes their workflows and monitoring solutions to take advantage of their 24/7 operations staff, which significantly reduces the need for off-hours support.

• Flexible work schedules are available and the team utilizes Email, Jira, Confluence, Teams, Slack, and other collaboration solutions to stay in contact.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Troubleshooting and debugging various Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and implement solutions to optimize performance and scalability both on-premise and in the cloud.
• Collaborate with researchers and developers to encourage and facilitate Kubernetes best practices into their applications, write Helm charts, configure complex pipelines to streamline multiple code repositories for automated deployments/upgrades, and work with others across the organization to ensure that we are delivering secure solutions in compliance with Internal Operating Procedures.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• United States citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in a scientific field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of experience managing UNIX/Linux Systems.
• 1 year experience utilizing Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Experience utilizing configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, or other CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Moderate fluency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, Go or equivalent.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA and CKAD and 2+ years building and maintaining Kubernetes environments.
• Experiencing building and managing Kubernetes infrastructure in a production environment.
• Experience managing virtual infrastructure on public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
• Strong knowledge of multiple operating systems.
• Experience with performance and diagnostic tools for benchmarking, analysis and tuning of systems, networking, and storage.
• Previous experience working in a government, scientific, or other hig ly technical environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills suitable for user support and ability to work well with peers.
• Demonstrated ability to balance complex research and security requirements.
• Technical documentation skills, including ability to prepare simple documentation web pages.
• RHSA, VCP, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS and ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

• Inside office environment.
• Working on a computer for long periods of time.
• May involve long period of sitting at a desk.
• The work environment is fast-paced and sometimes involves extreme deadline pressures.

OTHER DUTIES

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Xcel Engineering is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, religious creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, protected Veteran Status, genetics or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access Xcel Engineering's current openings as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 855.212.1810. Thank you for your interest in Xcel Engineering.

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