DevOps Engineer

Description:
In this position, you will be working in an engineering team consisting of software, development operations, and systems engineers. You will be collaborating with software development and network engineering teams in analyzing, automating, and deploying software, operating system, and security updates to a large-scale satellite communications system. You will be responsible for software bug and security vulnerability life-cycle tracking as well as system configuration management, and deployment automation. Your work will include development and maintenance of automated software test, build and deployment processes including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of new software builds into both lab and cloud environments.

Pay Rate: $60 - $65 an hour

Location: San Diego, CA (Open to Remote)

Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Responsibilities:

• Building, deploying, and testing Helm Charts, ArgoCD applications, and/or Terraform configurations files.
• Development of procedures, scripts, and playbooks to automate the update of company software and cots application packages.
• Building software packages and deploying / testing them in containerized environments.
• Deploying automation for Linux operating system updates and patches.
• Deployment and Maintenance of AWS Infrastructure.

Experience Requirements:

• 3+ years work experience in systems engineering, software engineering, or development operations.
• 3+ years of work experience using, testing, and developing high-level scripts preferably with python and/or bash languages.
• Experience working with deployment automation and configuration management tools such Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform.
• Good working knowledge of software build process and automation principles.
• Familiarity with software development tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Make etc.
• Good working knowledge of Linux operating systems and being able to Administer a Unix/Linux servers.
• Working knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol and networking stack.

What will help you on the job

• 3+ years' work experience working with software development, test automation, and/or CI/CD tools such as Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, ArgoCD, Make etc.
• Some experience with virtualization technologies such as ESXI, OpenStack etc.
• Work experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift, etc.
• Some experience using and/or administrating SQL database systems.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident with the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance or higher is required
• Active secret clearance required