Job Description

Do you have what it takes to become a Kessel Runner? At Kessel Run we are building war-winning software airmen love to use. Supporting these efforts require a constantly evolving technology stack and delivering new services to our developers in less than 11.5 parsecs.  The security and release team is keenly focused on developing and exposing managed services to internal users through self-service management APIs built on top of the Kessel Run platform. Using public cloud is pretty cool, but if you’re up for building services that compete with public cloud and running the world’s most interesting hybrid, cloud come join us! We have small teams, we’re agile, move fast, and we’re offering and building on top of managed services that take advantage of industry best practices and open source solutions.

As a DevOps engineer, you’ll play a major part in our efforts to evolve the Kessel Run platform and enable our strategy for creating highly inventive technology solutions for our Airmen. This job requires a developer who is focused on operations and ensuring our managed services rarely need any humans involved to keep them running and maintained. There is a large gap between setting up an open source system once and making that system reliable and available instantly at the click of a button or via an API call.

As part of our Kessel Run Engineering Services organization, the Security and Release team is in charge of developing application build, security scan, and release tests to ensure our applications are security deployed throughout the world.  The team is responsible for implementing decoupled, elastic, automated, and service oriented architectures that enable development teams to rapidly validate the quality and security of their applications. This team is key to securing our applications, helping application development teams bring their latest ideas to the field faster, and providing the fault-tolerant and highly-scalable core of Kessel Run’s platform as a service for internal users.

We are looking a talented, motivated, and experienced DevOps Engineer who share our values of:

• We take responsibility and ownership for delivering high quality work
• We promote an environment of consistent collaboration, helping everyone at Kessel Run succeed
• We strive to continuously learn and improve our work flows and processes
• We ensure open communication, calling out issues, opportunities, and continuous feedback
• We have integrity, maintain confidentiality, value service, and share a sense of ownership in our success
• We have a passion for supporting our developers, our war-fighters, technology, and our platform

Our values and philosophy, along with the Kessel Run motto of Code, Deploy, Win has made the KR platform one of the most innovative and forward learning technology stacks within the Department of Defense. We are pushing the limits and boundaries of concepts, ideas and technology inside and outside of the Air Force. Our ideal candidate is passionate about supporting Airmen, Agile software development, and implementing DevOps architectures and principles.

What you will do

• Acting as a subject matter expert (SME) on security and release services and systems and advise/educate other engineers
• Automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of services/systems on the Kessel Run platform
•  Managing system-level performance tuning to optimize for reliability and efficiency
•  Planning new feature releases and and platform improvements, while prioritizing safety
•  Supporting developers, designers, and product leads by consulting on their applications and guiding their deployment to production

Who you are

• Extreme passion for implementing DevOps architectures and enabling developers
• Fluency in Python
• At least 3 years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Demonstrated experience with build, release, and configuration management in a CI/CD environment
• Experience in Git workflow management, implementation, and usage
• Experience using and implementing static and dynamic code analysis tools
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization of services
• Experience writing and using YAML files
• Experience with infrastructure as code principles and ability to write Terraform
• Effective communication skills with developers of all technical skill levels
• U.S. Citizen and have the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance

Pluses

• Amazon Web Services cloud certifications such as associate, professional, and/or specialty certifications that prove familiarity and expertise while operating within an AWS cloud environment
• Professional security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), COMPTIA Security+, GIAC Security Essentials, or similar credentials that demonstrate an understanding of cyberspace security
• Docker Certified Associate certification demonstrating applied understanding of containerization principles
• Experience using Gitlab for project and workflow management
• Experience using Gitlab CI/CD and Gitlab Runners
• Previous experience in helping other organizations transition to utilizing containers and container orchestration to support CI/CD pipeline requirements

Come join our team of Kessel Runners continuously looking to innovate and be at the cutting edge of DevOps solutions!

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: Not Disclosed.

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