DevOps Engineer

SSA LLC has a need for a Dev Ops Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA. This is a direct‑hire role with our client, a fast‑growing Federal Integrator. A Top Secret Clearance is required; sponsor for CI Polygraph.

DEVOPS ENGINEER – Springfield, VA (on‑site)

This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high‑quality, cost‑effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team the Dev Ops Engineer's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment.

• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Establish and improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
• Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
• Administer production, staging and development environments
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
• Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after‑actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
• Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
• Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
• Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Aligns to the customer's strategies
• Utilizes the customer's enterprise Dev Sec Ops  pipeline
• Work with other service providers to support areas of common