DevOps Engineer

Location: Annapolis Jct, MD
Category: DevOps Engineer
Travel Required: No
Remote Type: No
Clearance: TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Compensation: As per Labor Category (LCAT)

• Approx. $180K (8-10 years experience)
• Approx. $200K (10-15 years experience)

Position Requirements:

• Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
• Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production
• Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
• Set-up up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
• Maintain / upgrade/ patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence/ Jira)
• Assist in design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployments
• Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be stream lined and automated
• Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements
• Assist with support and operations where necessary
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored, or accessed
• Leverage programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java
• Experience with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies
• Ability to have a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture
• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes

Position Responsibilities:

• Must be fluent with Git
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 6/7/8, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS)
• Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency, and performance
• 5+ years working in an Agile dev environment (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master degree in relevant field)
• Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo, Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred
• Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, etc.)
• Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus)
• Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance, etc.
• 5+ years of system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read the code and understand the coding logic to assist in troubleshooting
• 5+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment
• Familiarity with software development life cycle models, Agile, and DevOps programming methodologies
• Fluent skills in object-oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, GO, Python, or Java
• Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments
• Ability to successfully work with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills, and technical troubleshooting skills
• Clarity and precision in verbal and written communications

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher is required in either Engineering (i.e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science with a minimum of five (5) years of related experience (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)