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Legato Search Inc. · 3 months ago

Kubernetes System Engineer (DP-2/3)

Fort Meade, Maryland, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $190K/yr

14+ years exp

Legato, LLC is a dynamic small business headquartered in Columbia, near Ft. Meade, MD. They are seeking a Kubernetes System Engineer to provide operations and system administration for Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, collaborating with stakeholders and development teams to ensure operational project requirements are met.

Information Technology & Services

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provide operations and system administration for Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, including but not limited to: Stakeholder collaboration, development & product teams to understand operational project requirements and feature specifications

Image Templating

Create and maintain CI/CD Pipelines

Perform regular system scanning, 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 & 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 & 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)

Qualification

KubernetesLinux AdministrationAnsibleVirtualizationSystem ScanningIAT Level 2 CertificationBash ScriptingGitLabJira

Required

Skilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage & interface management, hardening and patching

Skilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems & applications

Experience with Virtualization/VMware (AWS, AZURE or similar), Bash Scripting, and Kubernetes (K8s)/Containerization

Skilled in System Scanning, Patching & Monitoring

Familiar with GitLab, Jira or similar

At least fourteen (14) years of experience in a similar role

An IAT Level 2 Certification

A Bachelor's degree in related discipline is required. Five (5) years of equivalent experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree for a total of nineteen (19) years of experience