Senior DevOps Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer with Security Clearance
Overview VTG is looking for a Dev Ops Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a Dev Ops Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in Dev Ops framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.

This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months. What will you do?
* Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,

* Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems

* Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services

* Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance

* Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience

* Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions

* Have experience with Dev Ops pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as Cloud Formation, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck

* Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON

* Experience with AWS CLI

* Be able to assess and improve upon existing Dev Ops/CI/CD processes to move the program forward

* Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model

* Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases

* Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage Git Flow constructs

* Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.

* Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers

* System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months Do you have what it takes?
* Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
* BA/BS degree and 11-15 years experience

• Expert in Linux operating system usage

• Expert in using Dev Ops tools such as Jenkins, Git Hub, and Rundeck

• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within Dev Ops toolsets/practices

• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit

• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo

• Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloud formation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.

• Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)

• Experience with Nexus administration

• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• Well versed with using version control systems

• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a
production environment.

• Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and
security best practices.