DevOps Engineer

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By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry.

Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation‑based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi‑domain force.

Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.

• Perform a wide range of Dev Ops functions, including authoring and maintaining automation deployment and monitoring scripts, researching, implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI‑CD) tools and processes, automating application deployments, managing virtualized and containerized assets, creating virtual and physical network configurations, servers, communications, and test and developer engineering support.
• Author and maintain scripts in a variety of languages; all work products must be configuration managed.
• Analyze real‑world problems and implement solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, DoD Dev Ops guidance, and industry best practices.
• Assure system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
• Support the implementation and operation of a fully automated CI‑CD pipeline that leverages enterprise container and virtualization platforms.
• Monitor, maintain, install, and support networked virtual machines, containers and software applications.
• Assist software developers, integration, and test engineers to best utilize Dev Ops capabilities.
• Use an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work.

• Understanding of commercial Dev Ops tools and processes.
• Use scripting languages for automation, administration, data collection and reporting; must be able to write, test, debug, deploy, and sustain scripts.
• Configuration manage, version control, and backup various scripts and work products created to execute and maintain the environment.
• Prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
• Lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills.
  • Professionally convey system‑wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Jira, Confluence, etc.
  • Train others to perform similar Dev Ops and automation tasks. Support a corporate library of knowledge by maintaining and evangelizing content.
  • Interact with developers to understand software changes that will impact development and testing activities, examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements.
• Solving technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.
• Associate or Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as computer science or information technology from an accredited college or university.
• Three years of work experience preferred.
• Additional certifications are a definite plus or working toward certifications.
• IAT Level II or greater. Security+, CISSP or other equivalent certification within six months of date of hire.
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA, etc.), Jenkins Pipelines, Puppet, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Harbor, Kustomize.
• Experience with private and hybrid cloud design/operation/monitoring/deployment:
  • VMware vCenter and ESXi,…