The Swift Group is looking for a DevOps Engineer who is interested in working in a fast-paced environment building and maintaining a DevSecOps platform. The successful candidate will develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and tools for developers, automate deployment of services, provide documentation and self-service tools to onboard product teams, and monitor security and performance of platform services. Our DevOps engineers are asked to solve challenging problems for the client. This position is located in Reston, VA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy and maintain critical services supporting both on-prem and cloud-native architecture Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management
• Use automation best practices, such a IaC and GitOps, for repeatability and fast provisioning of environments
• Work closely with development teams to provide onboarding support Support backup and disaster recovery planning

Required Qualifications: 

• 8 years of experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
• 8 years of experience with troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues related to CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness
• 5 years of experience with commercial Cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, containers, serverless architecture, micro-services, Web services, and RESTful API design
• Experience with deploying active AWS or Azure services using Infrastructure-as-Code technologies, including CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of software and infrastructure-as-code in a DevOps and continuous delivery environment using automated deployment and testing frameworks
• Experience with deploying CI/CD solutions to Cloud-based environments supporting a continuous integration and development and continuous delivery and release workflow
• Experience with developing API solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code and Cloud-oriented strategies
• Experience working within an Agile and version-controlled environment
• Bachelor’s degree
• US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with development languages to build, troubleshoot, and deploy CI/CD artifacts to production environments
• Experience with multiple CI/CD and Agile Development tools, including GitLab, Atlassian, and Jenkins
• Experience with developing Linux-based solutions using commercial Cloud
• Experience with deploying and managing logging and monitoring solutions supporting rapid deployments
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in Associate Cloud or Development Technologies