DevOps Engineer - Mid

**Join the Nalley Consulting team at Southcom HQ.** **Position:** DevOps Engineer **LCAT:** Mid **Location:** SOUTHCOM HQ, Doral, FL / Off\-site **Office:** U.S. SOUTHERN Command J2 **Required clearance:** No **Required education:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or five (5\) years of equivalent experience in DevOps engineering. **Description:** * Create and maintain environment\-specific Kubernetes configuration packages (e.g., Helm values files, YAML manifests) that incorporate STIG\-aligned hardening and RBAC policy enforcement per IL environment. * Implement and manage secrets injection strategies using FedRAMP\-compliant tools (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault), ensuring compatibility with automated deployment pipelines. * Integrate CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, automated deployment and rollback of ArcGIS components and related services, supporting ongoing agility and compliance across environments. * Coordinate with Kubernetes and Data Layer Engineers to ensure version control, pipeline integrity, and integration testing for all containerized services. * Coordinate with the infrastructure team to provide estimated cloud resource usage profiles for Kubernetes\-based deployments in IL2, IL4, and IL5 environments. * Supply container and workload specifications to the Cloud infrastructure team to support provisioning, tagging, and prepay or reservation planning * Implement resource tagging in alignment with program\-wide cloud governance policy and reconcile actual usage against estimates provided by Cloud Instances and Accreditation team. * Support cost optimization efforts led by Cloud Instances and Accreditation team by adjusting workloads and scaling strategies in response to performance and utilization feedback. **Required Experience:** * Possess the knowledge and capability to design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure management, and ensure scalable deployments across cloud and on\-premises environments. * Must be proficient in container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or AWS CodePipeline). * Strong understanding of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), security best practices, and monitoring/logging solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) is required. * Must have demonstrated experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, automating cloud infrastructure, and implementing secure, high\-availability CI/CD pipelines. * Experience with microservices architecture, service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd), and observability tools is required. **Desired Qualifications:** * Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.