Title: | Container Engineer |
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ID: | 1578 |
Praescient Analytics, LLC (Praescient) is a Veteran-led, certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) founded in 2011 that specializes in implementing advanced analytics solutions across the defense, intelligence, and law enforcement communities. With over 40 contracts across 6 continents, over 70% of our employees are veterans and or have intel/law enforcement experience. We fully understand the unique challenges of our clients and work to identify, vet, implement, and enhance commercial and proprietary technologies to provide full scope solutions, because we have bee4n there. Praescient has extensive experience designing, developing, and integrating solutions for customers including the US Army, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), US Navy (USN), US Marine Corps (USMC), US Coast Guard (USCG), Department of Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), intelligence community, and local law enforcement agencies, among others.
Praescient Analytics is in search of a Containerized Engineer to work on our Advanced Analytics Technical Solution (AATS) system contract in Charleston, SC. The Containerized Engineer will automate the deployment of COTS and GOTS applications using one or more configuration management and containerization technologies and implement automated deployment technologies for cloud-based systems operating as SaaS or IaaS.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Define the future for containerization and microservices, with an eye towards reducing the computing footprint for customer implementations
- Develop custom scripts to manage and control containers
- A strong eye towards secure coding practices and container security to ensure C-I-A triad for government partners
- Work with development team to improve CI/CD pipeline and implement industry best practices with the ultimate goal being Compile to Combat in 24 Hours (C2C24)
- Provision and maintain virtual machines in both a traditional virtualized environment (VMware) and AWS cloud infrastructure
Required Qualifications:
- Department of Defense Secret clearance
- Associate’s degree in a relevant area of study and 5-9 years of experience of increasing responsibility or a Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of experience
- Proficiency with containerization technologies, such as Docker, Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- Experience writing custom scripts and applications to enable containerization of COTS and GOTS software products, using Powershell, BASH, and other languages
- Experience with automated configuration management applications, such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or CFEngine
- Proficiency with Microsoft Windows 10, Server 2016/2019
- Proficiency with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, as well as other Linux software
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools to include Word and Excel
- Experience with Jira, Trello, Tuleap, and other task tracking software products that support Agile/Scrum
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in a Scrum/Agile software development environment
- Experience with Microsoft Visio
- Automated deployment experience of a full technology stack – Network, Hypervisor, OS, Applications
- Experience with VMware products (ESXi, vSphere, VMotion, vSAN, vSwitch)
- Experience with Github or other version control systems
- Experience with Confluence, BitBucket, Nexus, and DI2E
- Experience in a rapidly evolving intelligence program
- Strong understanding of TLS, server certificates, and deployment of certificates using automated tools
- Top Secret/SCI clearance
About the Project
The Advanced Analytics Technical Solution (AATS) system is the Program of Record (POR) to provide cutting edge All-Source Intelligence solutions to the US Marine Corps’ Distributed Common Ground System – Marine Corps (DCGS-MC). The project started in 2019 as a replacement for outdated software products, and is focused on integrating state of the industry intelligence analysis tools, to include geospatial analysis, social media analysis, and text analytics. AATS is currently in the pre-deployment phase, and is slated for deployment to all three Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEFs), Marine Forces Reserve, and other locations in the first quarter of FY2021.
What you can expect from us:
- Real opportunity for career growth in an environment where your achievements will be celebrated
- Constant collaboration with numerous teams to ensure client success
- A team that respects and embraces your ideas and expertise
- Coworkers that are motivated by pursuing excellence, rather than the prospect of personal gain
- A workplace dedicated to supporting and bettering public safety and government agencies
Benefits:
- Very competitive salary based on qualifications and experience
- Comprehensive, Company paid United Health Care Medical for you and your family (We pay your premiums and deductibles)
- 401(k) & 4% matching
- Travel & performance incentives
- 3 weeks paid time off (plus Federal Holidays)
- $5K annual training allowance
- $500 book allowance
- Tuition reimbursement program
Praescient Analytics is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all. Employees and applicants without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity, national origin, legally protected physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or status in the uniformed services of the United States, status as a disabled veteran or veteran of the Vietnam era, or on any other basis which is protected under applicable law. This includes a commitment to provide a work environment that is free from all forms of illegal harassment including sexual harassment.
This covers all terms and conditions of employment including (but not limited to):
- Hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, or demotion of all job classifications;
- Recruiting, advertising or solicitation for employment;
- Treatment during employment;
- Rates of pay or other forms of compensation;
- Benefits;
- Selection for training;
- Company sponsored social and recreational activities; and
- Layoff or termination
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
US Citizenship Required
Praescient Analytics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Interested Candidates: Please forward your resume to recruiting@praescientanalytics.com and please visit our website to apply online at www.praescientanalytics.applicantstack.com/x/opening