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 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.

• Seamlessly implement technical architectures into on-prem and cloud infrastructure, including design, maintenance, support, and planning

• Responsible for identifying the most optimal cloud-based and on-prem solutions for existing and emerging use cases

• Ensure the on-prem and cloud solution meets availability, accessibility, scalability, and cost-based needs

• Architect and implement on-prem and 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 life-cycle with on-prem and cloud technologies, including CI/CD releases

• Must be willing to work on-site in Northern Virginia

• 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

• 2-5 years relevant technical experience

• Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes

• Experience automating tasks using tools such as Bash, Python, and Go

• Experience with CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) frameworks

• Experience with advanced orchestration of on-prem and cloud platforms

• Proficiency within a variety of Linux-based environments.

• Ability to identify complex issues, perform triage, initial troubleshooting, and escalation if necessary.

• Proficiency with Git, Vsphere, AWS, Rocky Linux, STIGs, a plus

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