DevOps Engineer, Senior – TS/SCI w Poly Required

Your Impact:

Founded in 2015, Knack Works was formed to address the demand for cutting edge development environments within the intelligence community. Knack Works is focused on providing scalable, automated solutions that enable our customers to perform their national security missions in an ever-changing environment of new technologies and evolving threats. Our flagship product, the “Knack Stack,” introduces flexible and automated hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service for cloud agnostic deployments and automation. It’s designed to automate data management and security.  Today, we are fortunate to realize our vision.  We operate independently as Knack Works, a subsidiary of Jacobs, retaining our identity as a small business yet with the support from a large company.

Knack Works is seeking a DevOps Engineer with a passion for engineering automated solutions to join the team on-site in Northern Virginia. 

Responsibilities:

•    Seamlessly implement technical architectures into cloud infrastructure, including design, maintenance, support, and planning
•    Responsible for identifying the most optimal cloud-based solutions for existing and emerging use cases
•    Ensure the cloud solution meets availability, accessibility, scalability, and cost-based needs
•    Architect and implement cloud security features, to include ensuring interfacing with identity services and the proper processing of sensitive data from a protection, encryption, transport, storage, access, and auditing standpoint
•    Work through the development lifecycle with cloud technologies, including CI/CD releases

Here’s What You’ll Need: 

• BA/BS Business Information Technology, BA/BS Computer Science, or BA/BS Computer Engineering (or equivalent years of work experience)
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph
• 10 years relevant technical experience
• Must be willing to work on-site in Northern Virginia
• Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Experience developing tools with Python and Go
• Experience with CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) frameworks
• Experience with advanced orchestration on cloud platforms
• Experience with RHEL/CentOS system administration
• Strong proficiency with Git
• Proficient in Linux

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