Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

FTI is looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to join our growing team. FTI provides mission-tailored, technology-enabled services and solutions that enhance the ability of the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and the Federal Government to make the best decisions possible in support of national interests. Furthermore, FTI supports those who safeguard our nation with advanced technology, services and expertise while building upon our values to make a positive impact on our customers, each other, and our communities.

Lastly, our culture is built around our 4

Cs:
Core Values (Ethics, Morals, Integrity, Honesty, Sincerity), Commitment, Compassion, and Charity.

• Identify areas for process automation improvement, automate existing and new processes, maintain, and deploy cloud infrastructure, and support the Agile software development lifecycle build process.
• The candidate will have deep experience of Python & Ansible with networking technologies, such as routing, switching; managing heterogeneous environment.
• Full lifecycle of software systems; including development, testing and deployment.
• The candidate will be responsible for the development of automation solutions utilizing Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat.
• Leverage automation tools to reduce security compliance errors/vulnerabilities and improve Gitlab security reporting.
• Integrate with internal back-end infrastructure systems.
• Perform root cause analysis for security relevant issues in development environments.
• Investigate and resolve security ,technical, and other potential CI/CD issues.
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes.
• Assist in baselining and maintaining container standards and enforcement of them.
• Constantly looking to align to industry best practices to integrate security within a Software Factory.
• Experience analyzing Gitlab security scanning and working with development teams to resolve identified issues.
• Experience managing repositories and maintaining collaborative version control
• Extensive knowledge of Cloud computing i.e. AWS, Gov Cloud, or similar.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science or a similar field of study.
• Six or more years of Dev Ops engineering experience.
• Previous leadership experience, including team leadership, technical leadership, mentorship, or management responsibilities, with demonstrated ability to support team development, coordination, or cross-functional collaboration.
• Hands-on experience developing or maintaining automation using Ansible.
• Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration, engineering, troubleshooting, or automation experience.
• Experience with Git-based source-code repositories, version control, branching, and collaborative development workflows. Git Lab experience is preferred.
• Practical experience supporting or deploying resources in AWS. Gov Cloud experience is helpful but not required.
• Experience using Terraform for infrastructure as code. Candidates with limited Terraform experience may be considered if they demonstrate strong experience with Ansible, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Git or Git Lab, and AWS. Terraform training may be completed before onboarding.
• Experience developing tools and processes that advance Dev Ops or Dev Sec Ops  capabilities through automated builds, regression testing, monitoring, and releases across environments.
• Experience developing and deploying automation services for continuous monitoring and observability tools, including Kibana, Elastic, or Splunk.
• Experience troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving CI/CD pipeline failures or…