Senior DevOps Engineer II

Senior Dev Ops Engineer II

Our Optical Systems division solves mission‑critical space domain and ISR challenges for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer II based at our Optical Systems site in Tucson, AZ, you will support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) by automating CI/CD pipelines and deploying applications for advanced Electro‑Optical (EO/IR) technology.

• Support AWS development, test, and production environments
• Collaborate with project leads and team members
• Align with Security and IT for policy assurance
• Develop and support pipelines that include automation and configurations for containers, data management, and release/deployment solutions for programs
• Automate software deployments into varied and complex environments using virtual machines, container technologies, Kubernetes, Cloud environments, and bare metal servers
• Support engagements related to assessing, refactoring and identifying opportunities for existing applications to leverage modern application architectures (e.g., containers)
• Participate in Agile sprints and associated activities
• Support onsite work, as well as travel or offsite work, as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering or equivalent discipline with 8+ years of experience
• Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud‑based development and operations environments
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
• Experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments
• Experience in key AWS services (such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Route
  53, Cloud Watch, S3, etc.)
• Experience in supporting Dev Ops tools and pipeline environments, such as Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonar Qube, and Artifactory
• Experience working with Container technologies (such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Proficiency in Linux system administration
• Ability to design, enable, and deliver scalable and automated strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible and Terraform
• Experience supporting cloud network resources such as VPC, URL proxies, private link, DNS, ACLs, Security groups, routing tables, etc.
• Background in scripting and/or coding, such as Java, Python, Terraform, and/or Bash
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit of)
• Experience with on‑premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations
• Experience in database administration; one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
• Experience in AWS Elasti Cache for Redis
• Expertise in the Git version control system command line
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, RFC
  2196, etc.)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus
• Regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, operate computer keyboard and controls, and communicate verbally and in writing
• Must be physically able to commute to buildings

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