General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc

Devops Engineer IV

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc • $100K — $130K *
Charlottesville, VA 22903In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with nine years of relevant experience
  • Proficiency in deployment technologies, particularly Kubernetes for container orchestration
  • Experience with metrics monitoring tools like Grafana
  • Understanding of user access practices and security controls
  • Strong knowledge of configuration management and system administration
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills
  • Familiarity with software development lifecycle best practices

Responsibilities

  • Identify and resolve deficiencies in product delivery and architecture
  • Lead in hiring a small team of DevOps engineers
  • Inspect, patch, and upgrade existing products for reliability
  • Maintain development, testing, and production environments
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines for maximum efficiency
  • Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management
  • Develop operational solutions for backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a high-stakes environment with government customers
  • Chance to shape the future of product delivery in the organization
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and processes
  • Support for ongoing professional development and certifications
  • Collaborative team culture within a growing DevOps community
Full Job Description
Job Summary

GA-Intelligence is looking for experienced Senior DevOps Engineers with Top Secret/SCI clearance to help create and develop a new Operations and Maintenance team. You, as well as the team will manage the configuration, deployment and maintenance of deployments for multiple government customers into multiple environments. We are looking for someone who can further improve our deployment process as well as our software in order to deliver what our customers need. The ability to maintain these production systems in a high stakes environment is a key success factor. Join our growing team in taking our systems to the next level, giving end-users the power to see beyond the data and truly understand the world around them.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Under general direction, finds deficiencies with our product delivery lifecycle and architecture and implement industry best practices to improve them.
  • Oversees and offers input over hiring of a small DevOps team to assist the operation and maintenance of our products.
  • Inspects, patches, and upgrades our existing product(s) so that they can more reliably deliver to customer environments.
  • Maintains development, testing, and production environments.
  • Manages continuous integration and delivery pipelines to maximize efficiency.
  • Implements industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
  • Develops and maintains solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
  • Tests system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed.
  • Manages code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
  • Works with CI/CD tools, and source control (git)
  • Offers technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.
  • Stays current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.

Job Qualifications

  • Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and nine years of related experience.
  • Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
  • Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
  • Understanding of user access practices and security controls within a system.
  • Understanding of system administration in various OS environments.
  • Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.
  • Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
  • Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment.
  • Able to work on-call hours as required.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Understanding of AWS services and cloud management.
  • Experience maintaining existing production kubernetes installations.
  • Experience with kubernetes configuration management systems such as helm and GitOps.
  • Continuous integration processes and tools such as GitLab CI.
  • Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools.
  • System monitoring and analysis.
  • Familiarity with Intelligence Community and DoD mission sets.
  • CompTIA Security+ certification or willingness to get certified.
Here's a peek into our tech stack. Any extensive knowledge with these is a major plus:
  • Linux development environments
  • Kubernetes (both RKEv2 and AWS)
  • Helm
  • Helmfile
  • Git
  • Java 17+
  • Continuous integration and delivery tools (trivy, linting, testing, other static code analyzers)

About General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a leading designer and manufacturer of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems, including the Predator® RPA series and the Lynx® Multi-mode Radar. GA-ASI provides long-endurance, mission-capable aircraft with integrated sensor and data link systems required to deliver persistent situational awareness and rapid strike capabilities. The company is headquartered in Poway, California, and has additional offices and facilities around the world.
Learn more about General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc
Size
14,000 employees
Industry
Aerospace & Defense
Founded
1955
* Ladders Estimates

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