Devops Engineer

Job Description
ECS is seeking a DevOps Engineer to work in Quantico, VA . Please Note: This position is contingent upon additional funding.

ECS is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to supporting cutting-edge technology for law enforcement and scientific organizations. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the design, deployment, testing, certification, operations, patching, addressing interoperability issues, of DevSecOps infrastructure tools, including all operating systems, support libraries, components, and application dependencies.

We are seeking a creative problem solver, who enjoys the challenge of tackling technical tasks and problems with little oversight, enabling the team to release their application optimally, and connecting dots to think at the broader, solution level. A strong desire and aptitude for learning is a must with a proven ability to adapt and drive change - our solution is rapidly evolving, along with new requirements, technologies, and an evolving threat landscape. We seek a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to implement new technologies and systems in a team environment where deadlines are important. integral to data operations for the development and integration of a variety of data types across a wide range of client data sets and source systems.

Responsibilities of the DevOps Engineer include but are not limited to:

• Work closely with other engineers, analysts, and architects as well as product owners and managers to establish, configure, test, document, implement, maintain, continually improve and automate operating systems, application software, system management tools, data, and processes

• Support, monitor, and manage day-to-day operations of systems, applications, infrastructure that depend on data, ensuring that the systems are available for processing and securely transferring to its appropriate location, in a timely manner. As well as supporting maintenance of systems and tools that reside such systems such as upgrades, patches, configuration changes, etc.

• Confidently, proactively, and collaboratively seek opportunities to define and improve applications as well as secure continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes, automation, tools, integrations, and related programming languages

• Help cultivate an environment that promotes cost-effective, secure, quality engineering, customer service excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork

Required Skills

• US citizenship and active Top-Secret Clearance

• 5+ years of experience in a CI/CD or DevOps role developing, implementing and maintaining well continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for solutions delivery using cloud well-architected framework best practices, cloud provider native services, automation, infrastructure as code, cloud-native technologies (microservices, containerization/container orchestrators, APIs), typical CI/CD pipeline related tools, security tools, Ansible, repositories, and the ALM suites of tools

• 5+ years of experience in a role developing, implementing and maintaining pipeline as code implementations including setting up of CI/CD environments, execution of application tests, compilation of code in and deployment of code package to their respective environments

• 5+ years of experience with Linux OS . Comfort navigating in Linux and intermediate understanding of the Linux OS architecture.

• 5+ years of system engineering experience including experience in install, manage, and maintain systems for large, complex systems and data sets, including but not limited to scripting (shell, bash). Proficient in data manipulation (Python, SQL), data extraction, transformation, load (ETL) processes, and testing tools

Desired Skills
Candidates will benefit from having these skills, experience and understanding:

• BS degree in System Engineering, Computer Science or related IT field/equivalent experience

• Experience delivering excellence in Federal Government (preferably the Department of Justic) cyber security and working within DOJ FBI, practices, standards, processes and policies.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate and work across all levels of the organization and communicate technical terms to non-technical audiences with an impeccable attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to proactively, analytically identify/research/investigate/troubleshoot problems prior to escalation (if needed), and develop innovative solutions to problems
• Demonstrated experience architecting, developing and managing mature pipelines, solutions, cost calculation, performance tuning, and infrastructure management being able to discern flaws and issues with proposed architecture or suggestions.

• Highly skilled in working with customers to understand their requirements and deliver superior solutions

• Contributor to open-source projects

• Relevant professional level cloud, DevOps, or Elastic certifications
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) across multiple environments and Agile DevSecOps principles, practices, and processes including working as part of an agile team, agile processes and tools (ALM, typical CI/CD pipeline tools / associated integrations and/or automations available with the tools)

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.