
Senior DevOps Engineer
Required skills
- TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Masters
- Doctorate
- AWS
- Oracle Cloud
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- AWS S3
- OpenSearch
- EFS
Nice to have
- Agile practices
Role summary
Seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and support complex systems using cloud capabilities within a DevOps framework. Responsibilities include participating in the full software development lifecycle, designing and troubleshooting automation solutions, developing and deploying solutions on commercial cloud platforms, and coordinating with cross-functional teams. The role requires expertise in DevOps toolsets, CI/CD practices, cloud platforms, and performance testing tools. An active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is mandatory.
As a Senior 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.
What will you do?
- Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
- Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
- Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
- Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
- Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
- Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
- Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs
- Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting
- Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments
- Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
- Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures
- Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures
- Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.
Do you have what it takes?
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Candidate must have BS degree and 11-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. Will consider work experience in lieu of degree.
- Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development
- Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter
- Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Well versed with using version control systems such as git
- Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
- Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices
- Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
- Interested and eager to learn
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