Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

VTG is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months.

What will you do?

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
• Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience
• Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions
• Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck
• Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON
• Experience with AWS CLI
• Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward
• Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
• Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage GitFlow constructs
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers
• System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months

Do you have what it takes?

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• BA/BS degree and 11-15 years experience
  • Expert in Linux operating system usage
  • Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck
  • Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices
  • Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit
  • Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo
  • Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.
  • Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)
  • Experience with Nexus administration
  • Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Well versed with using version control systems
  • Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
  • Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a
  production environment.
  • Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and
  security best practices.