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Akina, Inc · 1 day ago

System Engineer -3 (Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, Operations and System Administrator)

Laurel, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$175K/yr - $245K/yr

20+ years exp

Akina, Inc is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join their team. The System Engineer -3 will be responsible for Operations & System Administration for Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, collaborating with stakeholders, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring system security compliance.

Computer Software

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Stakeholder collaboration, development & product teams to understand operational project requirements and feature specifications

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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 AdministrationAnsibleCI/CDBash ScriptingVirtualizationSystem MonitoringGitLabJiraTest AutomationNetworkingPythonCKA CertificationCommunication Skills

Required

TS/SCI - Polygraph 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

Virtualization/VMware (AWS, AZURE or similar)

Bash Scripting

Kubernetes (K8s)/Containerization

Skilled in System Scanning, Patching & 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 & resolve issues

System Engineer - Level 3 (SE3) - 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

CWIP Level I required at start; Level II required within 6 months