Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Aurora, CO.
Required Clearance: Top Secret/SCI with CI Poly
Since 1999, ITEC has been a powerhouse in supporting mission-critical programs for the DoD and Intelligence community, building a solid reputation along the way. At ITEC, we don’t just care for our employees—we champion them with competitive salaries, an outstanding employee care program, and a benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, and a 401k.
U.S. Citizenship Mandatory: Due to our US federal government contract, candidates for this position are required to be a US Citizen and will be subject to a background investigation.
Job Description:
ITEC is seeking a Senior Platform Developer. You will herald a transformative era in software engineering, one that underscores the integration of development and operations through a single, comprehensive platform. Platform engineers, with their comprehensive technical and problem-solving skills, are shaping the future of software development to efficiently deliver high-quality, secure software, by providing automated services that enable SW engineers to focus on developing mission capabilities.
The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation.
You will be on an agile team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.
Note This position will be onsite in Aurora, CO.
Job Responsibilities:
- Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in support of transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure to a modern platform infrastructure.
- Optimize implementation for performance and scalability across on-premise VMware computing environments.
- Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management.
- Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions.
- Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
- Provide operational support for the platform.
Required Skills:
- BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5 years of related work experience.
- Experience with containerization using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker.
- Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go).
- Current CompTIA Security + or ability to obtain.
Desired Skills: 1
- Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe).
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab).
- Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
- Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore).
- Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework.
- Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience and expertise (Server, Storage, Network Hardware).
- Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration.
- Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using infrastructure as code (IaC).
ITEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup Public Sector.
