Senior DevOps Engineer

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.

• 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

• 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