DevOps Engineer

Highlights:

• Support mission-critical systems and enterprise products, working closely with development teams and technology stakeholders across both legacy and new solutions.
• Build and support enterprise DevOps environments, managing the components, tools, and infrastructure that enable reliable development and production operations.
• Drive automation and CI/CD practices, developing scripts, streamlining operational processes, and defining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment best practices.
• Work hands-on in AWS cloud environments, supporting cloud infrastructure baselines, software deployments, build environments, monitoring, and operational availability.
• Collaborate across the development lifecycle, integrating products into the DevOps environment and troubleshooting issues across development, test, and production environments within an Agile SAFe setting.

Typical Day:

This DevOps Engineer role provides subject matter expertise-level, mission-critical system support to our customer. You will closely work with the Development team as well as other technology stakeholders to maintain, develop and support IC enterprise products - legacy and new products - in an Agile SAFe environment. The role will also work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate systems. Additionally, this role will help automate and streamline operations and processes; as well as build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments.

Tasks:

• Supports software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.
• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment.
• Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices.
• Codifying DevOps best practices across the enterprise.
• Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks.
• Scripting and maintaining build environments.
• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment.

Required Qualifications:

To be considered, must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance

• Education: Masters with 15 or more years of prior relevant work experience. Will consider additional work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience setting up one or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues with two or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
• Demonstrated experience working within a software development team and supporting developers and developer activities.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in science, technical, or engineering discipline.
• AWS Associate Certification (Developer, Solution Architect, or Sys Ops Administrator)
• AWS Professional Certification (DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)
• Demonstrated experience in container orchestration using Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS/ECR
• Demonstrated experience with Languages including Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Unix shell Scripting
• Demonstrated experience with Ansible, or Puppet.

Position Type Shift Information:

• Mon-Fri, 40 hr work week

Citizenship & Clearance: US Citizenship and TS/SCI with a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP) Required

Location:       Onsite- Bethesda, MD

Ideal Innovations, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

Ideal Innovations, Inc. is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.