Our work depends on an DevOps engineer joining our team to support Government activities in the Washington D.C.area. As a DevOps Engineer supporting the Government, you will be a part of a team charged with hands-on testing, verifying, creating, and building out new configurations in the JWICS Modernization Lab before introduction into the live environment.
In this role, a typical day will include:
⦁ Providing technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing assessments as well as end-to-end flow analysis
⦁ Designing operating/hardware systems; formulating system concepts and architecture, specific requirements, and developing implementation approaches
⦁ Identifying and directing resolution of complex hardware/software interface issues; subject matter expert on emerging technologies; direct the development of systems specifications and technical documentation
⦁ Conducting and/or approving end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas
⦁ Providing expert guidance and direction to Government and Vendor senior level technicians and managers; interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts
⦁ Collaborating cross-functionally with data scientists, analyst, project managers, and other engineers
⦁ Analyzing user's requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications and documentation; analyzing system requirements and leading design and development efforts
⦁ Guiding system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans
⦁ Testing software development methodology in an agile environment
⦁ Providing ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
What you'll need:
⦁ Extensive experience with Redhat and/or Centos
⦁ Demonstrated experience in server builds using automated mechanisms
⦁ Demonstrated experience with Ansible playbooks or puppet modules for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching, and software development
⦁ Demonstrated experience with Ansible or Puppet
⦁ Demonstrated experience with Gitlab
⦁ Demonstrated experience deploying Docker engines in virtualized platforms for containerization of multiple apps
Desired Skills
⦁ DevOps experience building and deploying cloud infrastructure with technologies like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
⦁ Hands-on experience with data formats including XML, PCAP, images, and media
⦁ Hands-on experience with Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, Spark, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, Flume
⦁ Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
⦁ Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
⦁ Possess 3-5 years of experience and familiarity with the following software/tools: Infrastructure automation technologies like Docker, Vagrant, etc.
o Build automation technologies like Maven, Jenkins, etc.
o Monitoring technologies like Nagios, Ganglia, etc.
o Modern programming languages like Java, Python, etc.
o Building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
o Elastic Search and relational database