DevOps Engineer

Position Overview: We are looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA to help innovate how our customer delivers value to their mission through automation. A Top Secret clearance with Poly are required for this role. This effort is leading the charge for how DevOps can improve business outcomes across the customer’s organization. If you have a strong desire to design, build, and automate infrastructure and system configuration, and improve how people think and work with technology, apply now!

Responsibilities:

In this position you will be part of the core team responsible for creating the DevOps foundation to automate and configure full development, test, and production environments. We’re leveraging tools like Packer, Terraform, Vault and Chef to provision and configure entire environments in customer’s on-premises data center. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Implements DevOps methodologies into an Agile software development environment.
• Collaborating and leading with other engineers to plan, design and develop the DevOps 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 DevOps 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.
• Develops and maintains mission-critical information extraction, analysis, and management systems.
• Participates in architecture and software development activities.
• Translates loosely defined requirements into solutions.
• Uses open-source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.
• Collaborates with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem.
• Performs incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize errors encountered.
• The ideal candidate will have outstanding technical talent with desire to continuously learn and apply new skills and technologies.

Experience Required:

• Active TS SCI with CI Poly Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline with 9 years of prior relevant experience.
• Or 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.
• Security+

Skills Required:

• Experience with Kubernetes a must
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, and/or Ansible.
• 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