DevOps Software Engineer Security Clearance

Position: DevOps Software Engineer with Security Clearance
Would you like to perform rewarding work while contributing to the success of an established, growing company? Navstar is an award-winning organization that has a proven track record of successfully providing IT services and solutions both as a prime and sub-contractor on mission-focused IT programs. Our employees are integral players in support of mission-critical programs focused on our National Security.

Role

Description:

This company is an agile development practice and mindset that uses agile principles (collaboration, communication, utilizing the right tools) to streamline software building, testing, and release. Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is a methodology for streamlining software development and deployment, focusing on automating processes and enabling faster, more reliable releases. The selected individual will support activities as a member of an agile development team for a large complex enterprise system.

The position requires a dedicated software engineer who will work on a variety of tasks. She/he must have a willingness to learn and use new technologies and methodologies, with a focus on automating processes and ensuring efficient software delivery. She/he must consider the organization's entire IT infrastructure when making changes and improvements.

Responsibilities Include:

* Managing tools for development, deployment, and integrated testing.
* Integrating project functions and resources across the entire product life cycle.
* Identifying manual processes that can be automated.
* Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools.
* Implementing various development, testing, and automation tools, optimizing IT infrastructure.
* Ensuring that system improvements do not jeopardize system security.
* Striving for improvement, and building continuous integration, development, and deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
* Persevering when facing challenges, with a strong commitment to the goals.
* Collaborating with and assisting team members across the program as needed.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

* To be eligible for this position you must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
* Must have a solid understanding of this company.
* Must have at least 5 years of experience managing tools for development, deployment, and integrated test.
* Must have at least 5 years of experience working with CI/CD frameworks.
* Must have meaningful System Administration experience (mostly Windows but also Linux).
* Must have experience with several of the following:
Java, Groovy, Python, Power Shell, Batch, and Bash scripting, JavaScript, Angular

JS.
* Must have experience with IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) such as Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Rhapsody, Web Storm.
* Must have experience with software source control and configuration management tools.
* Must have experience working in a virtualized environment (managing VMs).
* Must have experience with container-based platforms for automated deployment of applications.
* Must have experience with software source control and configuration management tools.
* Must be motivated, flexible and willing to learn new techniques, technologies and adhere to best practices in test automation.
* Must have a strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.
* Must be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
* Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
* If not located at the MD location, some short-duration travel may be required to support quarterly PI Planning sessions in MD.
* To be considered for this role, candidates must meet the requirements for one of the following skill levels:
* Senior:
Seven (7) years experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
* Expert:
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