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.