Devops Engineer-Solutions Architect

BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments. 
If you are interested in joining a rapidly growing Federal consulting company in a high-energy, flexible corporate headquarter environment, now is your chance! We strive to spread our Mamba Mentality and cultivate your professional and personal growth —join the team! 
BLN24 is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer/Solutions Architect to join our team. 
What you bring to the Game: 

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, equivalent technical experience 
• Have 5-7 years with experience in solution delivery, implementation, and engineering within DevSecOps, Agile, Cloud & Solution architecting, and automation. 
• Deep experience architecting solutions in AWS 
• Deep experience with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CodePipeline, GitHub Actions/GitLab Runners) 
• Passionate about the concept of Infrastructure As Code and leveraging modern tools to define, build and manage hybrid and multi cloud infrastructures. 
• Solid understanding and proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation YML IaC toolsets. 
• Experience with container orchestration and deploying Kubernetes (or EKS) clusters. 
• Experience with AWS serverless resources such as lambda, api-gateway, cloudfront 
• Experience working with development teams in a TDD environment in configuring CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments. 
•  4 or more years of experience working with agile tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence. 
• Demonstrated ability come up with System designs, architecture, service mesh architectural process flows and tools and Concept of Operations for large complex systems. 
• Have positive attitude and a team player.

Nice to haves: 

• Experience serving in technical leadership roles and is familiar with Federal IT proposals with prior experience collaborating with business development teams as a technical solution architect SME. 
• Should have an AWS certification or be ready to obtain a certification within 60 days from the date of joining. 
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as New Relic, Splunk, Datadog and Prometheus 
• Experience with Helm Charts deployments and Understanding of RBAC for k8s clusters. 

What BLN24 brings to the Game: 
BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans. 

• You can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area. We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability. 
• Flexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home. 
• We offer competitive benefits including: 401(k), Healthcare, learning and development opportunities, and more. 

BLN24 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe people are our strength and understand diverse talents are key to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.