About the role

What will you do at The Swift Group, LLC?

Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and

solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software

Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and

Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence

Community customers across the country and around the globe.

Are you passionate about data and data science? How about providing the tools

and foundation for the community to build applications while working at the

intersection of infrastructure and application engineering? We're looking for a

high-performing DevOps Engineer to perform software engineering and technical

O&M support for a large and complex cloud-based computing platform.

The ideal candidate will be experienced in coding, scripting, and collaborating

with the end users from external groups as well as partners across the

community. You will deploy the environments and tools to support the data

science community, creation of standalone applications and services. You will

also lead efforts to develop new ways to access the platform in controlled

security environments.

Candidate must be able to work independently and as part of a team. Due to the

complexity and diversity of the platform, the ideal candidate is eager to learn,

research new technologies and solutions, and enjoy being part of a high

performing team! The location of this job is Reston, VA.

Responsibilities

* Support cloud infrastructure and system administration
* Support system operations and maintenance
* Monitor general system and server health, create solutions where needed
* Troubleshoot and resolve system issues
* Assist with security scans and security accreditation activities
* Perform system account management (managing certificates, system credentials,
expiration dates)
* Maintain updated repositories on multiple fabrics
* Manage backup and restore process for core services

Requirements

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
* 8+ years of relevant experience
* Proficiency in Linux including scripting (Bash, Python) and service
management
* Experience building and deploying applications in AWS (preferred),
* Azure, or Google Compute Environment
* Experience with deployment automation and continuous integration tools such
as Terraform, Ansible, or similar
* Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and version control
(Git, GitLab)
* Experience with code repositories and build/development pipelines (Jenkins,
Maven, or Nexus)
* Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration (Docker,
* Kubernetes, Mesos, or Marathon)
* Experience working with software development teams under source control
project environments
* US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
required
Desired Experience:
* At least 10 years of DevOps / software engineering experience Knowledge of
SQL and relational database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS)
* Experience working with Amazon Web Services
* Experience working with distributed databases and streaming technologies, for
example, Hadoop, Spark, Yarn, Hive, Trino
* Knowledge of or experience with data science applications such as Python,
Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook or NiFi.
Do you know anyone for this position, or other positions open at The Swift
Group? We offer a $5,000 bonus for any referral candidate we hire, paid out at
the new hire’s 90-day mark.
We are not working with outside staffing agencies to fill this position, and we
will not be accepting unsolicited resumes. All inquiries must go through the
recruiting team.
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Which skills does this role require?

LinuxBashAWSCloud infrastructureCloud ComputingSystem AdministrationSecurity AccreditationInfrastructureContainerizationData Platform

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