DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer – Security and Electronic Systems (SES) Business Unit

We rely on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Dev Ops practices to manage an enterprise IT infrastructure that supports customer critical missions and functions. The focus of this position is on automating the deployment of infrastructure, code, and applications, as well as image management, to streamline development and operational processes. The successful candidate will join a dynamic multidiscipline team responsible for design, implementation, integration, and support of the enterprise IT platform, which includes secure cloud-hosted and on-premises environments.

• Researching available technology options and their respective functional, performance, security, and interoperability characteristics; testing and evaluation of technology components.
• Collaborating with development and operations teams to resolve issues, document processes, and continuously improve automation practices, contributing to the overall efficiency, reliability, and scalability of the customer's technology infrastructure.
• Working with third‑party tools to manage scripts and automate and monitor deployment workflows, enhancing system reliability and scalability.
• Proactively monitoring the health of deployments, identifying and resolving issues, and redeploying after remediation.
• Working with system architects and lead engineer to maintain and improve the architecture and design of the infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions, including source code repository (Git), deployment pipelines, and related components.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining technology‑specific, configurable, and reusable automation modules for network and systems infrastructure, data storage, messaging, and cybersecurity components and services.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining infrastructure configuration code for new and existing enterprise IT solutions.
• Design and implement continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) pipelines, maintain and optimize cloud environments, and ensure efficient configuration management.
• Planning, evaluating, and executing capacity optimization, updates, upgrades and other lifecycle activities associated with the solution; troubleshooting of functional and performance problems.
• Creating and maintaining detailed and accurate system documentation, including design and configuration plans, design diagrams, task‑oriented procedures, operations and maintenance plans, etc.
• Designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining data flow pipelines to integrate applications and federate data among our customer's systems.

Clearance/Citizen Type: Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information.
ACTIVE TS/SCI w/ Poly clearance REQUIRED

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a Related Engineering Discipline
• Certification:
  • Compliance with DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II or higher required, must be able to obtain within six months of hire.
  • Microsoft Certified Professional / Systems Engineer certification is strongly desired.
• Experience:
  • 10+ years of progressive experience performing comparable systems engineering, implementation, and support functions. Advanced knowledge of IaC and Dev Ops architectures, processes, and best practices.
  • Advanced knowledge and extensive experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), libraries, development tools (e.g., Visual Studio), source code management systems (e.g., Git), build servers, artifact repositories, and related components.
  • Working knowledge and administration experience with application lifecycle management systems, such as Atlassian Jira (and related components), Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab, etc.
  • Working knowledge of MS Windows platform and services, including Active Directory / EntraID, Group Policy Objects (GPO), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), application deployment frameworks and components, networking, and storage services, and their associated cybersecurity characteristics,…