Your Impact:

Founded in 2015, Knack Works was formed to address the demand for cutting edge development environments within the intelligence community. Knack Works is focused on providing scalable, automated solutions that enable our customers to perform their national security missions in an ever-changing environment of new technologies and evolving threats. Our flagship product, the “Knack Stack,” introduces flexible and automated hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service for cloud agnostic deployments and automation. It's designed to automate data management and security. Today, we are fortunate to realize our vision. We operate independently as Knack Works, a subsidiary of Jacobs, retaining our identity as a small business yet with the support from a large company.

Knack Works is seeking a DevOps Engineer with a passion for formulating new automated solutions to join our on-site team in Northern Virginia. The candidate should demonstrate a team-driven approach towards growth and innovation in a culture that fosters collaboration and camaraderie. Additionally, an investigative nature and strong desire to adapt skills beyond their traditional experience is extremely beneficial to identify and advance new development opportunities. As a growing company in a thriving industry our team manages several complex platforms, spanning multiple projects and customers. To that end, our experience has returned candidate success attributable to an eager mindset for adaptability is equally valuable to a candidate seasoned in a single, regimented field.

Responsibilities:

• Seamlessly implement technical architectures into cloud infrastructure, including design, maintenance, support, and planning.

• Responsible for identifying the most optimal cloud-based solutions for existing and emerging use cases.

• Ensure the cloud solution meets availability, accessibility, scalability, and cost-based needs.

• Architect and implement cloud security features, to include ensuring interfacing with identity services and the proper processing of sensitive data from a protection, encryption, transport, storage, access, and auditing standpoint.

• Work through the development lifecycle with cloud technologies, including CI/CD releases.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• BA/BS Business Information Technology, BA/BS Computer Science, or BA/BS Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 6 years relevant technical experience

• Must be willing to work on-site in Northern Virginia

• Experience developing tools with Python and Go

• Experience with CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) frameworks

• Experience with advanced orchestration on cloud platforms

• Experience in AWS cloud platforms and associated tools

• Experience with RHEL/CentOS system administration

• Familiarity with container orchestration using Kubernetes

• Proficient in Linux

• Proficiency with Git based processing

• Basic Atlassian suite task tracking systems

• Active TS/SCI w/Polygraph required

Preferred:

• Experience operating within the sensitive government operational environment

• Experience in AI platform applications

• Familiarity with Agile principles and application

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