Job Specifications

Job Position – DevOps/Software Engineer 
Job Location - Springfield VA 

US Citizenship Required for this Position: Yes 
Clearance Type: Top Secret/SCI Required to apply 
Primary Shift: Flexible schedule to promote family/work balance 
Travel Required: As needed 
Experience: Minimum 5 + years of knowledge and hands on. 
Positions Available: 1 
Desired Certification: DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II 

Responsibilities: 

· Must have strong Software Development hands on experience. 

·  Must have strong Windows, Unix development or Mobile background development. 

· Implement automation tasks for server workloads such as writing ANSIBLE playbooks, BASH or PYTHON scripts. 

· Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments. 

· Requires expert application development, code review and analysis security assessments of various COTS and GOTS applications. 

· Test and recommend future direction or projects to management, including automation and scripting, virtualization, containers, storage and filesystem solutions, etc. 

· Maintain system security and execute common practices/procedures; monitors usage statistics and logs; monitors and remedies attempts to penetrate or corrupt server files. 

· Maintain baseline configurations and performs modification of configuration settings and automation solutions. 

· Ability to tackle complex infrastructure, security and development problem sets. 

· Developing and automating repeatable tasks and tuning. 

Qualifications: 

· Design, implement, and administer platform tools to support release of software products with tools such as Ansible, Spinnaker, Terraform etc. 

· Experience with container configurations and services, especially Kubernetes & Docker. 

· Strong programming/scripting knowledge with technologies like Python, Rust and JavaScript. 

· Ability to write well-written code following best practices and design patterns. 

· Ability to implement and improve monitoring and alerting. 

· Experienced with GIT repositories with hands on with tagging, releasing, and build processes (other repositories with similar code setup). 

· Strong technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated mitigation techniques. 

·  Experienced in UNIX/LINUX Server administration. 

· Experience with Cloud Storage and Virtualization solutions. 

· Experience in Setup and maintenance of cloud infrastructure. 

· Nice to have - Android development/architecting a plus. 

· Nice to have - mobile application design a plus. 

· Nice to have - Redis – multi-failover installations. 

· Nice to have - ElasticSearch – multi-failover installations. 

· Nice to have - Grafana and Prometheous. 

Core Competencies: 

· Provide technical guidance and leadership to engineers with less experience. 

· Ability to review work of others and detect errors or needed modifications. 

· Ability to work under minimal direction. 

· Ability to determine and develop approach to solutions quickly. 

· Ability to make recommendations to purchase hardware, software, and system\applicationcomponents. 

· Excellent communication skills: shows tact, effective listening skills and follow through. 

· Competent to work at a high technical level of systems engineering activities. 

· Innovation and Learning new technologies. 

Travel and alternate hours: 

· Occasional travel to customer sites in support of troubleshooting, testing, and deployment activities. 

· Ability to work after hours and weekends as needed. (outages/upgrades)