DevOps Kubernetes Support
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Summary
DevOps engineer supporting Reflexive Concepts' Zero Trust ICAM program for DoD customers: maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deploying and troubleshooting containerized workloads in Kubernetes and Linux environments, and keeping deployment configs, monitoring, and release documentation in order under senior engineers' guidance.
Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled DevOps Kubernetes Support Engineer to join our Zero Trust ICAM team!
Support DevOps activities for the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ZT ICAM) program and its deployments for DoD customers. Working under the direction of senior engineers, you will assist with automated build, test, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and release activities, support Linux and containerized environments, and maintain repeatable deployment configurations and documentation. The role calls for foundational DevOps knowledge and some hands-on Kubernetes experience, with room to grow those skills.
Responsibilities:
Support DevOps activities for the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ZT ICAM) program and its deployments for DoD customers. Working under the direction of senior engineers, you will assist with automated build, test, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and release activities, support Linux and containerized environments, and maintain repeatable deployment configurations and documentation. The role calls for foundational DevOps knowledge and some hands-on Kubernetes experience, with room to grow those skills.
Responsibilities:
- Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, artifact packaging, and release activities
- Assist with deploying and sustaining containerized applications in Kubernetes environments under the guidance of senior engineers
- Maintain configuration files, scripts, deployment manifests, repositories, and version-controlled engineering artifacts
- Help configure and troubleshoot workloads, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, storage, networking, and access controls
- Monitor pipeline and deployment results, review logs and system health information, document issues, and support corrective actions
- Assist with container and dependency scanning, vulnerability remediation tracking, software bills of materials, and release evidence
- Support DISA and other DoW customer deployment activities by collecting environment information, executing documented procedures, and escalating technical issues
- Develop and maintain setup instructions, deployment checklists, troubleshooting notes, release documentation, and other technical guides
- Seven (7) years of systems engineering experience
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field
- An additional five (5) years of systems engineering experience may be substituted for the degree, for a total of twelve (12) years
- Must be able to work in a collaborative environment, with minimal supervision
- Experience with RKE2, Rancher, Helm, Kustomize, Kubernetes package configuration, or single- and multi-namespace deployments
- Familiarity with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable automation and infrastructure tools
- Exposure to security scanning, vulnerability management, software bills of materials, artifact signing, container registries, or software supply chain practices
- Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, PKI, mutual TLS, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or enterprise identity and access management concepts
- Experience supporting classified, disconnected, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted customer environments
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Word, SharePoint, or Git-based repositories to manage work and technical documentation