Senior DevOps Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Senior DevOps Software Engineer

The Senior DevOps Software Engineer will assist in the design, development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting and incident/problem management for the Software Defined Networking (SDN) components.

Education and Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 8-12 years of prior relevant experience

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

· 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.

· Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.

· 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.

· Lead software configuration management (SCM) release planning and version control, providing SCM support throughout a software product's life cycle (initial software development through promotion to Test, QA and Production Environments).

· Plan and manage parallel software development and release cycles as well as provide SCM for a large distributed development network with remote partners, ensuring the consistency and reliability of software builds.

· Provide technical direction, leadership, guidance and training on CM processes 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 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).

· 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.