DevOps Engineer

BTI360 • Chantilly, VA, US • 2w ago

Do you enjoy being a software development team’s enabling force? Can you set up and maintain continuous delivery pipelines to ship quality code quickly? Do you have a knack for debugging distributed systems and can set up tooling to proactively detect and mitigate problems? Do you believe your infrastructure should be represented as code? If you said “yes” then we may have a home for you!

About the Role:

Our DevOps engineers are focused on making sure shipping new changes is fast, reliable, and repeatable. We use the latest in build, test automation, and continuous integration tools to orchestrate deployment pipeline processes. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the latest AWS cloud infrastructure tools. You’ll be able to automate, containerize, and auto-scale solutions for a variety of target environments including web applications, search and analysis apps, streaming data pipelines, and more.

You will be a part of an exciting program that serves the core operational mission of our Sponsor. This mid-sized, high-visibility program is paving the way for next-generation search, access control, and content curation capabilities for the mission. This program comprises several high-performance development teams that leverage modern technologies and practices including Lean Agile, Clean Code, and DevOps.

In this role, you will:

Set up and maintain continuous delivery pipelines to ship quality code quickly.
Debug distributed systems and set up tooling to proactively detect and mitigate problems.
Represent infrastructure as code.
Work with the latest AWS cloud infrastructure tools.
Automate, containerize, and auto-scale solutions for various target environments including web applications, search and analysis apps, and streaming data pipelines.

You might thrive in this role if you:

Possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
Hold a BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Have experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
Have experience with Kubernetes cluster administration.
Have experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration.
Have experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) and supporting automated testing.
Have experience with monitoring and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Icinga, Cloudwatch, Splunk, or the ELK stack.
Have experience with Git as a version control system.
Have experience with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
Have experience with configuration management tooling such as Ansible or Puppet.
Have experience designing, developing, deploying, and testing in the AWS ecosystem or similar cloud provider.
Are a team player capable of high performance and flexibility in a dynamic working environment.

You will excel in this role if you have also these skills:

Previous experience working as a software developer.
Experience with higher-level languages such as Go, Kotlin, Java, or Rust.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Developer.
Experience mentoring junior developers in DevOps practices.
Contributor to an open-source community.
Knowledge of AWS Services including:
Management: CloudWatch (Events/Logs), IAM, CloudTrail, EC2 Systems Manager.
IaaS: EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, KMS, Config, SNS, SQS, SES, SWF, S3, Glacier, EKS.
Data Management: Redshift, RDS, EMR, Data Pipeline, Kinesis, DynamoDB.
Experience with various DevSecOps tools including:
Build automation (e.g., Maven, Gradle, Ant).
Continuous Integration tools (e.g., Jenkins, Travis, Bamboo).
Testing tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium, jMeter, Gatling).
Code quality tools (e.g., Sonar, Cast, Coverity).
Static scanning (Contrast, Veracode, Fortify).
Binary repositories (Artifactory, Nexus).
Application Performance Monitoring (e.g., Jaeger, Zipkin, AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics).
Containers and container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Service mesh tools such as Istio or Consul.