Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Noblis•Atlantic City, NJ

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

Noblis is helping FAA manage large and complex telecommunications and information management programs that use state of the art technologies to deliver enterprise infrastructure services essential to the safe and efficient operation of the largest, safest, and most complex aviation system in the world. We are seeking smart, passionate, and motivated people to join our proven team in a challenging and rewarding work environment where you will be actively engaged at the intersection of technology and operations enhancing our nation’s aviation system. If you want to be involved in acquiring, implementing, and managing the communications and information solutions to achieve our nation’s aviation vision, this is the job for you! This is an opportunity for an experienced, driven software solutions architect to join a dynamic team working to implement and manage the FAA’s highly-visible System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program as part of the NextGen transformation strategy. Support the SFDPS engineering team by implementing container builds, writing automation scripts, and operating services in Red Hat-based environments under mentor guidance. Work in Agile teams and follow CI/CD pipelines to enable migration to the FAA cloud platform.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree and 6 years of relevant professional experience or Associates degree and 8 years of relevant professional experience
Hands-on experience with Linux (preferably RHEL) and shell scripting (bash, Python).
Software development experience with Java, Go, Python, or .Net
Some exposure or coursework experience with C or C++programming is a plus
Strong scripting skills with for automation tasks
Familiarization with Java build tools and basic debugging techniques
Experience building container images using Docker or Podman.
Familiarity with Git and basic CI/CD concepts.
Exposure to container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift) or willingness to learn quickly.
Comfortable working in Agile teams.
Willingness and aptitude to learn and contribute to code refactoring and containerization of legacy Java/C/C++ components.
U.S. Citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years ouf of the last 5 years U.S. residency).
Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability

Nice To Haves

Experience with Ansible or Terraform.
Basic cloud exposure (AWS/Azure/GCP or FedRAMP-authorized cloud).
Coursera/edX or vendor certs in Linux, Docker, or Cloud Fundamentals.
Any prior experience supporting FAA or federal systems (advantageous).
Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).

Responsibilities

Containerize application components (Docker/Podman) and create reproducible container images.
Maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development/test hosts and follow hardening baselines.
Support CI/CD jobs (Jenkins/GitLab CI/ArgoCD) by creating and updating pipeline scripts.
Implement basic Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for test environments (Ansible, Terraform modules).
Contribute to unit and integration testing, and assist with build troubleshooting.
Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
Assist with documentation (runbooks, deployment playbooks).