What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff II DevOps Engineer position at VTG Defense?
Overview
What will you do?
Do you have what it takes?
VT Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
VTG is seeking a Staff II DevOps Engineer to support our Navy customer in Manassas, VA. This position is mostly onsite.
Dozens of Navy tactical systems ranging between legacy software installed on bare metal to micro-containers running in an on-premise cloud need to be delivered, installed, integrated and tested rapidly and securely. This DevOps role will work to automate the delivery, installation, integration, and testing of Navy tactical software.
What will you do?
The selected candidate will work with many small teams to develop CI/CD pipelines to automate the delivery, installation, integration, and testing of Navy tactical software. Additional work could also include prototyping efforts that span a broad spectrum of computer technologies, including server, VM and container management, cybersecurity, data management, and networks.
- Lead a small team of junior DevOps engineers
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, PaaS, and PaaS Services
- Evaluate commercial and open source products for use in CI/CD pipelines and in a PaaS
- Integrate 3rd party applications
- Conceive, develop, and evaluate novel engineering solutions to address the unique requirements of the maritime environment
- Participate in cross-domain working groups to coordinate prototyping efforts and brief results to senior engineers
- Provide and update technical documentation for all work performed.
Do you have what it takes?
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
- 4 years of experience as a DevOps engineer (or similar role)
- Extensive experience using Linux (RHEL/Centos 7 or 8)
- Experience with Automated Testing to include tools such as Robot Frameworks, Selenium, and Eggplant
- Experience with CI/CD tools, languages, and frameworks (Jenkins, Ansible, GitOps, Nexus)
- Experience with shell scripting languages
- Experience with modern PaaS environment tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, KVM, or Helm
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Initiative, innovation, and resourcefulness.
- US Citizen with current SECRET Clearance or ability to obtain a SECRET clearance
- Successful completion of background check
Desired Qualifications/Skills/Abilities:
- Extensive experience with Automated Testing
- Experience developing software with C or Java
- Extensive experience as a Linux administrator
- Networking experience
VT Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.