Devops Engineer

About Beacon Systems, Inc

Beacon Systems, Inc, delivers Program Management, Science, Engineering, and Technology Solutions to Federal, Commercial, State, and Local Agencies. We are a subsidiary of Radiant Digital Solutions. Our Technology support to many DoD Agencies, NASA, Voice of America, FDA, and State Agencies such as State of FL, RI, MS, ND, VA, and WV extends our delivery of solutions worldwide.

Position: Devops Engineer

Duration: 12 Months plus

Location: Hybrid - Dallas, TX (3 Days onsite & 2 Days remote a week)

Job Description:

Are you passionate about C#? Jubilant about Jenkins? Animated about Ansible? Thrilled by Terraform? Would you like to work with cutting edge Platform Technology on a hybrid private cloud? Keen to abstract and improve User Journey with automation and APIs? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role, your key responsibilities will be:

• Helping to shape and engineer the correct tooling and automation capabilities to enable consumption of our private cloud platform
• Defining automation standards, frameworks and reporting
• Driving the adoption of Event Based Automation.
• Working with Infrastructure-as-Code principles, to enable the company to expand its private cloud capabilities
• Designing and implementing Jenkins pipelines to perform infrastructure automation tasks
• Defining, configuring and deploying Jenkins pipelines from code using Jenkins DSL
• Using Ansible for orchestration development, and managing our existing codebase:
  • Infrastructure tooling to create the glue
  • Defining new workflows to be consumed via self-service
  • Developing and managing Go and Python libraries
• Enhancing and expanding our Terraform Enterprise platform through:
  • Modular developments of reusable infrastructure components
  • Maintaining and expanding a catalogue of reusable infrastructure services
  • Providing Terraform users with best practises for creating their Terraform code.

Essential experience

• Deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience automating platform operations
• Writing Python and/or Go for automation
• Using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, TeamCity)
• Writing and managing Ansible Playbooks
• Working with GitHub Enterprise or similar VCS
• Experience creating reliable pipelines utilizing ELK/OTel for metrics, logs, and traces
• Applying IaC concepts for configuration management & immutable infrastructure

Desirable skills

• Deploying services on Kubernetes
• Writing HCL (Terraform) code & creating Ansible modules/collections
• Automating checks within CI/CD pipelines
• Deploying and managing immutable infrastructure

Compensation

Compensation for roles at Beacon Systems Inc depending on a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.