Senior DevOps Software Engineer

TCI has an immediate need for a Senior DevOps Software Engineer in Chantilly, VA or Colorado Springs, CO (no remote). This is not a Corp2Corp opportunity. This is a long-term contract opportunity with the possibility of hire. In addition to competitive, market-rate based pay, TCI provides all our Consultants with Comprehensive Medical/Dental Insurance, 401k, Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability benefits.

NOTE: This position requires US Citizenship and a current Top Secret / SCI Security Clearance w/Poly.

SUMMARY

Our client is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.

The Senior DevOps Software Engineer will join a dynamic development team in supporting space domain mission applications. The selected candidate will be working with a classified large-scale enterprise application using web technologies, distributed computation and storage frameworks, and sophisticated, cutting-edge domain analytics, with the system hosted on virtualized and cloud-computing platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in a team in implementing DevSecOps methodologies into an Agile software development environment.
• Collaborating and leading with other engineers to plan, design and develop the DevSecOps environment that includes cohesive CI/CD pipelines.
• Supporting the entire Software Development Lifecycle with an emphasis on build and release management via automation.
• Analyzing continuously the DevSecOps environment for technical and process improvements (e.g. integration of security measures, faster security and software updates, improved automation, reduced glitches, and software failures, etc.)
• Maintaining the deployed system, deploying updates and fixes, investigating, and resolving technical and network issues, providing technical support to end-users as needed.
• The ideal candidate will have outstanding technical talent with desire to continuously learn and apply new skills and technologies.

REQUIREMENTS

• MUST have an active Top Secret SCI Security Clearance with CI Poly.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline and a minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. OR a graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Must have a CompTia Security + Certification.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as like Puppet, Chef, and/or Ansible.
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience (Mid/Senior level) with Linux administration, preferably RHEL/CentOS 7 and 8.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or GovCloud.
• Must be a US Citizen and currently possess a Top Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Experience with Space Systems.
• Experience with continuous integration, build management, and automated test frameworks.
• Experience with deploying software applications to operations.
• Experience with diverse multi-site geographical team collaboration.
• Experience using the Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Experience with Microservices