Applications Engineer 4 – DevOps

Wyetech•Linthicum Heights, MD

About The Position

Wyetech is hiring a Senior Level 4 Applications Engineer focused on DevOps. The role designs and implements software tools and subsystems, manages software development and support, estimates costs and schedules, and maintains and improves existing applications. It includes responsibility for program design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, quality assurance, and directing and reviewing the work of other task personnel. As part of the Secure the Enterprise initiative, the engineer will help move security evaluation and authorization from manual processes toward automation, streamlined approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and network data gathering throughout a project's lifecycle. The DevOps Engineer will facilitate infrastructure management, continuous integration, environment configuration, and deployment while supporting the project's compliance and security posture. The role focuses on delivering automation that enables other teams to operate effectively. The engineer will monitor and maintain security tools and systems, perform database administration and vulnerability analysis, evaluate potential solutions, and coordinate their procurement and deployment. The position also involves designing interfaces and access controls, testing and integrating changes, deploying security solutions across the enterprise network, and training authorized users on newly deployed capabilities.

Requirements

Linux system administration experience.
Docker experience.
Python scripting experience.
AWS or other cloud experience.
GitLab Pipeline experience.
All experience and education must be in a technical field directly related to the proposed labor category.
Diplomas, GED certificates, and degrees must be from accredited institutions.
Minimum experience and education combination: 12 years of experience and a High School Diploma/GED; or 10 years and an Associate’s Degree; or 8 years and a Bachelor’s Degree; or 6 years and a Master’s Degree; or 4 years and a Doctorate’s Degree.

Nice To Haves

Elasticsearch experience.
NiFi experience.
Cloud hosting and automation experience.
MongoDB experience.

Responsibilities

Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses, and manage their implementation.
Manage software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, accepted design techniques, and CASE tools.
Estimate software development costs and schedules.
Review existing programs and refine them to reduce operating time and improve techniques.
Define specifications for software applications and modify and maintain existing applications using engineering releases and manufacturer utilities.
Perform program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
Instruct, direct, and review the work of other task personnel.
Conduct quality assurance reviews and evaluate existing and new software products.
Develop automation to support security evaluation and authorization, streamlined processes and approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and network data gathering across project lifecycles.
Facilitate infrastructure management, continuous integration, environment configuration, and deployment while supporting compliance and security.
Monitor the health and status of security tool suites through IT system management.
Maintain, upgrade, refresh, and update systems and tools to preserve full operational capacity.
Perform database administration to monitor, report, and repair degradation in the health and status of NISIRT systems and tools.
Analyze newly identified vulnerabilities and deficiencies in the Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud security tool suite and perform gap analyses.
Research and evaluate commercial products to address identified vulnerabilities or deficiencies, as directed by the Government.
Conduct analysis of alternatives and present findings to the Government in a Technical Analysis package.
Coordinate with ancillary organizations to procure, deliver, dispose of, and track hardware and software required for solution implementation.
Prepare configuration and software enhancement plans, and engineer solutions that interface with GUI or web front ends.
Define, design, and incorporate interfaces for retrieving data from scanning tools.
Design, validate, and implement access controls as part of systems and service solutions.
Enhance, modify, and test COTS/GOTS software and applicable hardware for interoperability and compatibility with the existing Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud architecture.
Prepare Engineering Change Proposals for implemented system configuration changes.
Define, coordinate, and schedule testing, integration, implementation, and deployment activities with dependent external interface devices and their owners.
Deploy security solutions across the IT Enterprise Network.
Install hardware and implement software needed for a fully functional computer environment.
Prepare and conduct training for authorized users on newly deployed security tool capabilities and functions, when directed by the Government.

Benefits

Wyetech contributes the equivalent of 20% of salary to employees' SEP IRA.
Generous paid time off of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations.
Employees may adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year.
Full-time employees may participate in voluntary medical plan options, some with a Health Savings Account.
Vision and dental benefits.
Life and AD&D benefits.
Short- and long-term disability benefits.
Hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance.
Optional identity theft and legal protection services.
Employee referral bonus eligibility up to $10,000.
Mobility among Wyetech-supported contracts.
Team-building events, including monthly lunches, a summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
Two complimentary branded clothing orders annually.