NXTKey Corporation is a 15 year old ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 20000, CMMI Level 3 (SVC) + SSD certified and agile Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) qualified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), that has refined our Information Technology, Information management, Information Assurance (IA) and cybersecurity solutions by supporting highly complex Information Technology (IT) environments at the Department of Justice (DOJ) United States Marshals Service (USMS), Justice Management Division (JMD), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Federal Prison Industries (FPI) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Client: HHS 

Telecommute: On site – Washington D.C. 

Position Type:  Full time 

Contract length: 3 years 

This is a great opportunity to work on challenging problems as part of a new DataOps Platform team. Developing an enterprise-wide DataOps platform is a new initiative.  Stepping on decades of experience in dealing with some of industry's most vital data-intensive applications, HHS approaches solving the problems at enterprise scale using modern technologies such as Kubernetes, GitOps and containerization 

Duties & Responsibilities 

The DataOps Platforms team: 

• Develops and continuously improves DataOps platform. 

• Develops and maintains common tools and libraries. 

• Evaluates new technologies and practices. 

• Helps developers with adoption of platform. 

• Ensures compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines. 

• Embraces agile development and continuous improvement 

• Encourages growth mindset and offers leadership opportunities at any level 

Required Skills: 

• 5 - 7 years of experience is the field 

• Strong coding skills in at least one programing language are required (Python, C++, ...) 

• Kubernetes, containerization 

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud services 

• Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub or equivalent 

• Apache AirFlow or equivalent 

• Experience with data processing applications and modern cloud-based data processing infrastructure 

• Linux command-line skills 

Bonus Skills: 

• Google Anthos 

• Docker 

• GitOps tools: ArgoCD or equivalent 

• Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform or equivalent 

• GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management 

• Modern observability and logging tools: Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), 

• DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Splunk, or equivalent  

• Secret Management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent 

• Data transfer tools: AWS DataSync, Aspera, MinIO, CloudSoda or equivalent 

• Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub 

• Experience with best-practice design patterns in coding and architecture 

• Experience working in Agile environment  

Educational Requirements 

B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering.

Work Authorization:

• US Citizen only.
• Must have an Active Public Trust clearance.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.