DevOps Engineer

Job Description: Prescient Edge is seeking a **DevOps Engineer** to support a Federal Government client. **Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.** **Benefits:** At **Prescient** **Edge**, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best\-in\-class benefits package that includes: * A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities. * Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage. * A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. * Career development opportunities, including on\-the\-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking. * A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged. **Description:** * Shall 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 deployed under WO\-003\. * Coordinate with the WO\-009 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 WO\-009 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 WO\-009\. * Support cost optimization efforts led by WO\-009 by adjusting workloads and scaling strategies in response to performance and utilization feedback. **Job Requirements:** **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. * 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. * 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. **Education:** * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or five (5\) years of equivalent experience in DevOps engineering. * Desirable but not required certifications include Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert. **Security clearance:** * Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a clearance. **Location:** * Doral, Florida. (USSOUTHCOM Headquarters)