BridgePhase specializes in designing, building, implementing, and operating digital services that help advance the mission of our Federal Government while preparing for new challenges ahead. We are currently seeking a highly skilled IT Operations Specialist to support a long-term contract supporting a Department of Defense customer. In this role, you will perform a combination of IT Operational support tasks needed to maintain the current environment, while also gaining significant exposure and experience with the implementation of DevSecOps tools and practices. This position is primarily remote, but occasional on-site visits to customer in San Antonio will be required.
Role Responsibilities:

• Perform routine operations and sustainment engineering and systems administration activities on the system, its components, platforms, and applications.
• Improve system, platform, and applications operations and functionality, monitoring, and optimization of resources.
• Conduct continuous monitoring activities as required.
• Conduct vulnerability management and remediation activities.
• Continually seek to improve components functionality, security, etc., and proactively make recommendations in that regard.
• Support cybersecurity taskers, initiatives, activities, and/or actions as required.
• Support maintenance of the accreditations to include performing routine STIGing of system components, POA&M remediation, etc.
• Execute and maintain appropriate configuration management activities and best practices to ensure accountability and documentation of system resources.
• Minimize downtown during peak hours and upgrades and installs planned to occur outside of the peak times the mission users need to access the environments.
• Produce documentation as needed on relevant systems operations and maintenance procedures to inform changes to applications and/or the platform.
• Proactively collaborate, support, and work with other IT Operations sub-teams, etc., in order to ensure operations are adequately supported, maintained, and mission goals and business objectives are achieved.
• Configure, deploy, improve and administer cloud-based resources and cloud native resources, specifically AWS.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot issues related to the operating system(s), infrastructure, platform, network components and software, as they arise.
• Provide technical support and assist in any accreditation-related tasks and activities.
• Document and propose improvements to business processes workflows.
• Build, operate, and maintain technologies and processes that enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), and other DevSecOps best practices.
• Administer routine application/software version upgrades, patches, remediate and fix vulnerabilities or other issues as they arise.
• Integrate DevSecOps tools and services to enable an automated pipeline that supports customer applications throughout their SDLC.
• Operate and sustain cloud-based CI/CD pipeline and components utilizing DevSecOps principles and best practices such as reducing human involvement through automation and similar.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability and supporting experience to perform tasks associated with duties and responsibilities above
• Proven ability working in system administration role supporting a wide variety of software applications.
• Prior experience working in an AWS environment is required
• Strong desire to work in team environment and learn new skills
• Existing Secret Clearance is required.

Position Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package
• Flexible PTO plan
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Excellent health care package
• Professional development and training budget
• Regular social and community outreach opportunities

No third party recruiters