DevOps Engineer
Requisition Id 4573
The Information Technology Services Division in the Business Services Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking qualified applicants for a Senior DevOps Engineer position in the Research and Development Systems Engineering group. The R&D Systems Engineering group exists to facilitate lab goals through systems engineering, integration and support for the research community at ORNL. We run mid-range clusters, servers, workstations and other services where science happens at the lab.
The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for facilitating DevOps for R&D projects. This position will work with a team to provide deployment, automation, monitoring, and management tool infrastructure for researchers. This role will advocate and promote DevOps to researchers who develop code as a part of their project. The DevOps Engineer will participate in project Scrums and work with researchers to provide automation solutions.
Major Duties/Responsibilities
Primary duties include:
- Support deployment, monitoring, and management for ORNL research projects
- Ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems
- Identify automation opportunities to improve DevOps operations
- Review architecture and offer recommendations for improvements
- System troubleshooting and problem solving across multiple platforms (dev/test/prod)
- Continuous process improvements
- Embrace continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes
- Evaluate new technology options and vendor products
- CI/CD technologies Jenkins, Gitlab runners, etc.
- Configuration Management - i.e. Puppet, Ansible, etc.
- Collaborate with research teams to ensure new environments meet requirements
- Identify and document IT best practices that will improve the systems deployment function
- Ability to present and communicate complex technical concepts to small to medium groups of scientists and engineers
- Work with research teams to design workflows for hybrid and cloud-based workloads
- Migrate workloads from internal servers and VMs to AWS
- Ensure the secure and effective operation of computing systems through compliance with ORNL procedures and IT Internal Operating Procedures.
- Troubleshoot system problems quickly and effectively.
- Work with other systems engineers and vendors to resolve hardware and software issues.
- Answer escalated helpline calls in addition to primary project work.
- Monitor systems performance.
- Install and configure software, both commercial packages and various open source packages.
- Maintain documentation/notes on software builds and installs.
- Collaborate with and mentor others within the DevOps team
- Off hours support may be required.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical subjects or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A minimum of 7 years of experience managing UNIX/Linux Systems.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience managing container infrastructure using docker.
- A minimum of 2 years utilizing configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet or other CI/CD pipeline tools.
- Fluency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, Go or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical subjects or equivalent combination of education and experience with 7 years of experience managing UNIX/Linux Systems.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience managing UNIX/Linux Systems.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience managing container infrastructure using docker.
- Experience managing virtual infrastructure on AWS.
- Experience with configuring and managing docker swarms/Kubernetes clusters.
- Strong knowledge of multiple operating systems.
- Experience with RHEL7, VMware 6+.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, traffic analysis, common protocols and network diagnostics.
- Experience with performance and diagnostic tools for benchmarking, analysis and tuning of systems, networking and storage.
- Experience with Nagios, Zabbix, Solarwinds, Ganglia, and other network and device monitoring systems.
- Previous experience working in a government, scientific, or other highly technical environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills suitable for user support and ability to work well with peer system administrators.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to balance complex research and security requirements.
- Background of contributing to open source projects or avocational endeavors such as hacker/maker spaces is desirable.
- Technical documentation skills, including ability to prepare simple documentation web pages.
- RHSA, VCP, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.
We accept Word (.doc, .docx), Adobe (unsecured .pdf), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and HTML (.htm, .html) up to 5MB in size. Resumes from third party vendors will not be accepted; these resumes will be deleted and the candidates submitted will not be considered for employment.
If you have trouble applying for a position, please email ORNLRecruiting@ornl.gov.
ORNL is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. UT-Battelle is an E-Verify employer.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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