DevOps Engineer Duration: Fulltime Location: Chantilly, VA Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration Experience with automation/configuration management using either Chef or an equivalent Security. Load balancing / proxying. (Of services, systems, components and processes.) Authentication services. Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with Azure is an added advantage) Strong experience with SQL, postgres and MySQL databases. A working understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, Shell, Perl and/or Ruby) Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service. Process re-engineering Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders. CI/CIT/CD -- continuous integration, continuous integration testing, and continuous deployment. Should be experienced and extremely knowledgeable of the overall installation of software tools in a dev Ops Environment. This person would be responsible for recommending and implementing the products, establishing processes and interfacing with the agile development teams. To support the Architecture Design Service contract with a CI/CD environment the key skills required would be : Chef, ci/cd pipeline, jenkins, nexus, jira, git and agile.