Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 6+ years; additional experience may substitute for degree.
Experience with tools like GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
Proven troubleshooting skills with development tools.
Experience collaborating within a software development team.
Responsibilities
Support mission-critical systems and enterprise products.
Build and manage enterprise DevOps environments.
Drive automation and CI/CD practices through scripting.
Work hands-on in AWS cloud environments for deployments and monitoring.
Collaborate across the development lifecycle to integrate products into the DevOps environment.
Troubleshoot issues in development, test, and production environments.
Define and codify enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment best practices.
Benefits
Onsite work in Bethesda, MD.
Standard Monday to Friday, 40-hour work week.
Full Job Description
Highlights:
Support mission-critical systems and enterprise products, working closely with development teams and technology stakeholders across both legacy and new solutions.
Build and support enterprise DevOps environments, managing the components, tools, and infrastructure that enable reliable development and production operations.
Drive automation and CI/CD practices, developing scripts, streamlining operational processes, and defining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment best practices.
Work hands-on in AWS cloud environments, supporting cloud infrastructure baselines, software deployments, build environments, monitoring, and operational availability.
Collaborate across the development lifecycle, integrating products into the DevOps environment and troubleshooting issues across development, test, and production environments within an Agile SAFe setting.
Typical Day:
This DevOps Engineer role provides mission critical system support to our customer. You will closely work with the Development team as well as other technology stakeholders to maintain, develop and support IC enterprise products - legacy and new products - in an Agile SAFe environment. The role will also work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate systems. Additionally, this role will help automate and streamline operations and processes; as well as build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments.
Tasks:
Supports software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.
Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment.
Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices.
Codifying DevOps best practices across the enterprise.
Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks.
Scripting and maintaining build environments.
Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment.
Required Qualifications:
To be considered, must have an active TS/SCI with at least a CI-poly.
Education: Bachelors degree with 8 or more years of prior relevant work experience or Masters with 6 or more years of prior relevant work experience. Will consider additional work experience in lieu of a degree.
The ideal candidate will possess:
Demonstrated experience setting up one or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues with two or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
Demonstrated experience working within a software development team and supporting developers and developer activities.
Desired Qualifications:
AWS Associate Certification (Developer, Solution Architect, or Sys Ops Administrator)
AWS Professional Certification (DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)
Demonstrated experience in container orchestration using Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS/ECR
Demonstrated experience with Languages including Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Unix shell Scripting
Demonstrated experience with Ansible, or Puppet.
Position Type Shift Information:
Mon-Fri, 40 hr work week
Citizenship & Clearance: US Citizenship and TS/SCI with a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP) Required
