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.