DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI – https://www.i-a-i.com) is seeking team members who are outstanding candidates with a background in design, development and maintenance of microservices, supporting a full stack web platform. The candidates should be comfortable in managing containerized software in hybrid cloud and physical infrastructure. Candidates will work in a highly agile and dynamic R&D environment that focuses on technology transition and product development. IAI is interested in candidates that can support (and/or lead) a team of multidisciplinary researchers and developers in maintaining the development lifecycles of a rapidly evolving product.
US citizenship is required for this position.

You are highly encouraged to apply if you are excited about using the latest technologies throughout the software stack, have strong analytical skills, a strong foundation in software engineering, and have a passion for high-quality code.

About Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) is a technology innovation company headquartered in Rockville, MD. We specialize in providing advanced technology solutions and R&D services to federal agencies, and corporations throughout the United States and internationally. Leveraging agile R&D processes, a multidisciplinary collaborative environment, and its substantial intellectual property portfolio, IAI excels in developing concepts into market-focused products and customer-driven solutions. IAI's core R&D areas include: Air Traffic Management, Big Data and Social Media Analytics, Control and Signal Processing, Cyber Security, Education and Training Technologies, Health Technologies, Modeling and Simulation, Networks and Communications, Robotics and Sensor Systems. For more information on IAI, please visit www.i-a-i.com.

JOB DUTIES:
Depending on the experience and interest, job duties will include:
• Perform maintenance activities including deployment, backup, restoration and performance tuning on a variety of messaging and storage backend (e.g. Solr, ElasticSearch, Kafka, MySql, Cassandra, etc.)
• Maintain and develop DevOps automation using tools such as Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet
• Automating and orchestrating the process of software deployment (CI/CD) to build, test, and release containerized software applications more rapidly, frequently, and reliably
• Improve existing infrastructure to incorporate latest technology best practices and cross application integrations (dynamic load balancing, highly available and fault tolerant solutions)
• Orchestrate deployments in a several environments
• Produce clear documentation for delivered solutions
• Develop and deploy monitoring and alerting capabilities for diverse set of services and infrastructure
• Support monitoring of deployed services and applications
• Communicate effectively in multidisciplinary team environment

DESIRED SKILLS:
Prior experience with one or more of these technologies is a plus, but not required.
• Eager and motivated to perform research, learn and develop new technology
• 2+ years of experience in related technologies
• Experience with containers and containerization
• Proficiency in Ansible, Puppet and/or Docker
• Hands on experience operating cloud, big data tools and frameworks such as Kubernetes, AWS, Hadoop ecosystem, Kafka, Nifi, Solr, Spark/Storm
• Database experience in one or more software such as MongoDB, MySQL/SQL, InfluxDB, Prometheus and/or Cassandra
• Logging and Monitoring using ELK stack, Grafana, log4j
• Comfortable working in Linux environment

EDUCATION:
A bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering or related field is required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. IAI is an EEO/AA employer.