DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Assist with the design of, as well as configure and maintain, infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Write scripts and configurations to automate software testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices.
• Proactively monitor build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors.
• Automate infrastructure and/or cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
• Informally mentor other staff in Dev Ops concepts and processes.
• Work with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and/or reduce costs.
• Provide application support, configuration, installation and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine possible resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications.
• Serve as Product Owner managing priorities, scope and schedule, when needed.
• Provide rotating 24x7 on-call support to lead the resolution of system issues and anomalies.
• On-call rotation is subject to change, based on team size, and is currently 1 week of on-call out of every 8-12 weeks.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 12 years of relevant experience; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD; or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must be a US Citizen with active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain Top Secret/SAP clearance.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within 6 months of hire.
• 4 years experience with build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant, GNU make) and/or continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins, Git Lab, Bamboo) and/or repositories (i.e. Nexus, JFROG).
• 2 years experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.
• Proficiency with Linux based software development tools.
• 4 years experience of Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.
• 4 years experience with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).
• 4 years of Dev Ops experience with container technologies in support of building and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• 4 years experience with container orchestration technologies (i.e. Kubernetes, Docker, Open Shift) and experience with Virtualization Technologies.
• IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security + CE) or ability to obtain within 1 month.