DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining DevOps processes and tools for the CI/CD efforts within the C2P Modernization program. They will play a supporting role in achieving the organization’s goals by keeping operating systems up to date with the latest DISA STIGs, AWS EC2 instance administration, and developing automated pipelines for cloud and HWIL environments. This position will directly involve working with GovCloud AWS, Jenkins, Atlassian tool suite, GitLab, Coverity, Fortify, and Artifactory., Ability to perform the following independently, under minimum supervision:

Participate in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on project-specific cloud platforms under senior team guidance.

Set up and maintain software and network infrastructure environments that deploy physical and AWS EC2 virtual machines.

Support evaluation and implementation of hardware and network infrastructure changes, including deployment, integration, configuration, upgrades, and patching on physical and virtual systems using Jenkins.

Automate deployment processes for specific projects using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins with supervision.

Help automate manual processes related to the software development life cycle.

Assist in building and maintaining software build and test pipelines to support development and distribution of software artifacts.

Participate in implementing cloud development environments to support software development tools and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines.

Monitor system performance and resource utilization on AWS EC2 instances and report findings.

Learn and implement security guidelines such as Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) in cloud and HWIL systems with support from senior engineers.

Maintain build and test pipelines to support software development artifact distribution.

Collaborate with development teams to improve software delivery and deployment processes, taking directions from senior staff.

Support in testing and deploying changes to existing software under supervision.

Assist in defining tools needed for cloud-based data repositories and configuration management.

Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies by learning from peers and training to help improve DevOps practices.

DevOps Methodologies

Agile Software Development

Operating systems (RHEL, Windows)

Programming or Scripting language (Bash, Python, Powershell, C++)

Version Control Tools (GIT)

CI/CD Tools (Jenkins, Artifactory)

Static Code Analysis tools (Coverity, Fortify)

Cloud Computing Concepts and Services (Amazon Web Services)

Atlassian Suite experience

Infrastructure as code, desired

Container Technologies, desired

Monitoring and logging stacks, desired

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

BS in STEM field Highly Recommended

CompTIA Security + Required, May be expected to lift up to 25 lbs

Frequent use of keyboard and typing

Frequent sitting and standing

WORK SCHEDULE

9/80

The ability to work non-standard work hours and schedules in support of project requirements., Candidates must have an active clearance OR the ability to obtain a US Government security clearance and will be subject to a US security background investigation (i.e. favorable background investigation / credit score). Additional eligibility requirements for access to various levels of classified information may also be required. An active security clearance is highly desirable.