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DevOps Software Developer
Contingent upon Customer Approval
Purpose:
- Valkyrie Enterprises has an immediate need for a DevOps Software Developer (.NET Ecosystem – Air-Gapped Azure DevOps) on-site in Huntsville, AL.
- Join the team responsible for the Missile Defense System (MDS) Ground Test (GT) scenario design for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
- MDA GTs are used to assess our nation’s defense systems through a variety of HWIL and simulation tests.
- Excellent opportunity to work on cutting-edge defense technologies while contributing to the security of our nation.
Job Description:
- Build and mature deployment pipelines across a secure, air-gapped environment and a connected cloud environment. This role is responsible for establishing reliable, repeatable processes to move .NET applications from internal development networks to external cloud-hosted systems.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for .NET applications
- Build and standardize deployment processes within an air-gapped network
- Establish secure, repeatable workflows for promoting applications from air-gapped environments to cloud environments
- Collaborate closely with development teams to integrate deployment workflows into the development lifecycle
- Improve reliability and consistency of releases across all environments (dev, test, staging, production)
- Implement monitoring, logging, and validation steps to ensure deployment integrity
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures and deployment issues across disconnected environments
- Document and enforce best practices for deployment and environment management
- Develop and maintain automated tests
Target Candidate:
- Systems thinker who can design end-to-end deployment workflows across constrained environments
- Strong ownership of the deployment lifecycle, especially in complex or manual environments
- Comfortable working hands-on with both infrastructure and application teams
- Process-oriented with an emphasis on repeatability, auditability, and reliability
- Pragmatic problem solver who can operate within strict security constraints
Success in this Role:
- Reduction in manual steps required to deploy applications
- Increased consistency and reliability of deployments across environments
- Faster promotion of applications from internal networks to cloud environments
- Improved developer experience with deployment workflows
- Clear, auditable deployment processes across all systems
Qualifications:
- Must have a BS in Engineering, Math, Physics, or similar technical discipline and at least 4–7 years of experience in DevOps, build/release engineering, or cloud engineering.
- Must have strong experience with Azure DevOps (pipelines, repos, artifacts).
- Must have experience designing CI/CD pipelines for .NET applications.
- Must have experience working with restricted or air-gapped environments
- Must have working knowledge of C# / .NET application structure and build processes.
- Must have experience with packaging and artifact management (e.g., NuGet, build artifacts, deployment bundles).
- Must have strong troubleshooting skills across build, deployment, and runtime issues.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience moving applications between disconnected networks (e.g., air-gapped → cloud), preferred.
- Experience with Azure cloud services (App Services, VMs, or container-based hosting), preferred.
- Experience implementing automated validation, smoke testing, or release gates, preferred.
- Familiarity with release versioning strategies and artifact traceability, preferred.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker preferred, but not required), preferred.
- Scrum / Agile experience, preferred.
- Active SECRET security clearance, preferred.
Security Requirements:
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Travel Requirements:
- Occasional or No Travel- less than 10%.
- If position requires travel by domestic flight or access to secure federal facilities/military bases, candidate must be able to obtain (by start of position) and maintain appropriate identification credentials, such as REAL ID. (More information regarding REAL ID can be found: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id)
Physical Requirements:
- Remaining in a stationary position.
- Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
- Communicating with others to exchange information
- Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
- Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.
Valkyrie strictly adheres to a policy of equal employment opportunity. This policy is based on Valkyrie’s commitment to hire and retain qualified employees consistent with position requirements; and to seek, employ, promote and treat all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status or protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition, genetic information or sexual orientation or other protected characteristics.
Additionally, Valkyrie Enterprises provides a variety of benefits to eligible employees to support your best health, wellness, and future, to include medical/dental/vision options, company paid life and disability insurances, 401k with match, education reimbursement, as well as company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).