DevOps Software Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience. 
• Strong working knowledge of Git and experience with development workflows in Bitbucket or an equivalent tool. 
• Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools). 
• Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker (OpenShift experience is a plus). 
• Full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment. 
• Experience designing and building automated software testing pipelines using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools. 
• Previous SCM experience, including release planning, managing software baselines, merging branches, and producing software builds 
• Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus). 
• Strong experience working on a UNIX command line platform. 
• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership. 
• DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain interim Secret clearance prior to start date 
• Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 60 days of start date 

Responsibilities:  

• Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket. 
• Provide DevOps expertise, guidance and training to a team of software engineers, ensuring congruence of the various infrastructure, software, configurations and interfaces maintained under configuration control 
• Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools. 
• Design, develop, document, test and deploy software written in Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL. 
• Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments. 
• Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team, communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives. 
• Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues. 
• Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks. 

Technical Knowledge  

• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards and updating applications and code to meet security scans and security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs). 
• Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence. 
• Experience integrating code review systems into the SCM process. 
• Experience with static code analysis, particularly security scans. 
• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team 
• Experience working as part of an Agile software development team. 

Clearance/Citizenship:  

• Secret 

• Must be US Citizen 

Travel Requirements:  

This position will involve less than 10% travel