PKI DevOps Engineer (Part Time)

TechFlow is looking to expand our Digital Services team by seeking an experiencedpart time DevOps Engineer to support a high-profile government contract to build an enterprise-level Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) as a service. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working on a small agile development team and have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of the PKI implementation in the AWS Cloud platform. Help bring this system to the next level by implementing feature and security enhancements as part of application, database, and operating system patching and configuration, and leading the effort to move our automated workflows into a controlled and secure CI/CD workflow across our deployment environments in AWS. This is a hands-on technical position that requires working collaboratively with other team members, producing quality work in short sprints, and under an aggressive schedule.

The DevOps Engineer has experience serving as a cloud engineer implementing complex 3-tier application architectures while ensuring a shared vision of customer requirements. You are comfortable being ahead of the curve in the latest software engineering tools, techniques, and AWS cloud offerings and being able to share your knowledge of these at both a deeply technical level and at a high level. You troubleshoot problems, especially production issues, involving the appropriate resources and stakeholders, and drive resolution to minimize impact to end-users. You drive improvements to processes and design enhancements in automation to continuously improve the production environment. You help ensure that best security practices are being applied and you identify recurring issues and remediate root causes.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, and maintain the high-availability, multi-node application solution through engineering activities that encompass development, delivery, operations, patching, and oversight.
• Design and implement application build packaging and deployment automation and operating system patching scripts.
• Deploy monitoring agents and assist with capture and maintenance of application, database, and operating system logs.
• Assist in implementing processes in existing tools and dashboards to establish and monitor capacity, load, and performance baseline system metrics, and trigger proactive incident alerting to ensure system uptime, security, and performance.
• Develop integrations with other systems, services, or applications using the PKI application's available protocols and web services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of general experience using methods and tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker, Selenium, SQL in the test, integration, build, security and deployment of the software applications.
• 5+ years of automating infrastructure, service delivery, and engineering site reliability, maintaining and operating systems, primarily RHEL, in on premise or AWS cloud environments.

• Experience in agile DevOps (DevSecOps) practices designed to quickly and securely deliver dynamic capabilities and resolve vulnerabilities.

• Bachelor’s Degree
  • General work experience may be substituted for education. The requirement for education levels can be substituted at the rate of 1.5 years of experience for every year of education. An associate’s degree is 2 years of education, a Bachelor’s degree is 4 years of education, and a Master's degree is 6 years of education. The work experience to be substituted for education must be in a relevant field such as Information Technology, Information Security, or an MBA. The years of specific experience used for satisfying an education requirement cannot also be used as filling the work experience requirement.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in deploying and maintaining Java-based enterprise systems and associated components including Ant, Java Development Kit, Apache Server, and WildFly
• Powershell, Python, and Ansible scripting languages and Visual Studio Code editor
• Demonstrated experience with Linux-specific network configurations
• Experience with Key Management services or storage of cryptographic keys
• Database experience in MariaDB or similar
• AWS relevant certification
• Atlassian tools including, but not limited to Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket or similar

About TechFlow

Founded in 1995 at the start of the dot-com revolution, TechFlow helped large commercial clients such as Dreamworks, Toshiba, MGM, and others modernize their business systems. Today, with deep operational roots in the bi-coastal innovation hubs of California and Washington DC, TechFlow continues as a leader in applying innovative engineering, technology, integration solutions, and support services to the Federal Government’s most demanding mission and business challenges.

Our culture thrives on out-of-the-box thinking and the unique powerful entrepreneurial expressions of our employee-owners. As a 100% employee-owned company, we have a shared expectation of commitment, accountability, and responsibility driven by a culture that embraces innovation and new ideas. Our goal is not to do what has been done, but to do it better.

TechFlow has four principal lines of business: Platform Services, Mission Services, Digital Services and Energy and Mobility Solutions. Our company has a strong track record of successful contracts in both areas and encourages cross-collaboration.

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Benefits

TechFlow, Inc is 100% employee-owned. Come make a difference in a job that contributes to your future and helps us build an agile workplace!

• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) – Pride in being an employee-owner and annual employer contribution (per plan guidelines)
• 401k plan with Roth option.
  • Eligibility for an employer match.
  • Immediate vesting
• Paid time off
• Holidays – 10 paid holidays per year
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Company-paid Life & AD&D insurance plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Resources
• Company-paid training and development program
• Voluntary benefits include:
  • Life & AD&D Insurance for employee, spouse, and children
  • Short-term and long-term disability (per plan guidelines)
  • Legal Shield and Identity Theft protection plans
  • Pet Insurance