DevOps Software Engineer

Job Description

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience.

Strong working knowledge of Git and experience with development workflows in Bitbucket or an equivalent tool.

Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).

Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker (OpenShift experience is a plus).

Full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.

Experience designing and building automated software testing pipelines using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools.

Previous SCM experience, including release planning, managing software baselines, merging branches, and producing software builds

Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).

Strong experience working on a UNIX command line platform.

Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.

DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain interim Secret clearance prior to start date

Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 60 days of start date

Responsibilities:

Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.

Provide DevOps expertise, guidance and training to a team of software engineers, ensuring congruence of the various infrastructure, software, configurations and interfaces maintained under configuration control

Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools.

Design, develop, document, test and deploy software written in Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL.

Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.

Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team, communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives.

Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.

Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks.

Technical Knowledge

Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards and updating applications and code to meet security scans and security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs).

Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence.

Experience integrating code review systems into the SCM process.

Experience with static code analysis, particularly security scans.

Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team

Experience working as part of an Agile software development team.

Clearance/Citizenship:

Secret

Must be US Citizen

Travel Requirements:

This position will involve less than 10% travel

Location: While this role is primarily remote one must live within commuting distance to Scott AFB, IL or Ft. Meade, MD for on-site support.

Full-time

Fully remote