Dev Ops Engineer

Nightwing•Sterling, VA

19h•$77,000 - $163,000•Onsite

About The Position

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Nightwing is looking for a solid DevOps candidate. The candidate must have detailed experience with AWS and all of its resources (or least its main ones EC2, S3, and RDS), as well as very familiar with Cloud formation to create and maintain AWS resources. The candidate must also have experience with programming in an Object-Oriented Programming language, preferably in Ruby, Python, or NodeJS. The candidate must have experience with using the AWS SDK in any of its supported languages: Ruby, Python, Java, NodeJS, etc. Java experience would be nice, but it is not mandatory. However, this experience will be vital in helping the development teams utilize AWS correctly. This person must be a friendly person willing to help in all cases as well as be familiar with architectural best practices. They must also have experience with Jenkins and building Jenkins Pipelines using Groovy, not just Jenkins Jobs using Bash. If the candidate knows how to create shared Jenkins libraries that is good as well. This is needed for the customers' continuous integration and deployment efforts. The person must also have some familiarity with Puppet to help manage software installations. This person must also have a familiarity with Docker, building and maintaining containers, and some experience with the customer Operating System. Understanding how to support Mesos/Marathon is not required. However, this candidate needs to have an understanding of Docker Orchestration tools like ECS or Docker Compose. Above all else, the person must be a good team player with an eagerness to learn as well as teach when required. You will work primarily as a software engineer as the infrastructure as code solutions that we utilize require both a Software Engineering and Systems Administrator skillset.

Requirements

TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Day 1
5 or more years of AWS experience
Experience building AWS resources using Cloud formation
Experience interacting with AWS resources using AWS SDKs such as Ruby, Python, and Java
5 or more years of Object Oriented Programming background: Ruby, Python, Java, or NodeJS
Experience with Jenkins and creating Jenkins Pipelines
Understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
At least 1 to 2 years of experience with Docker
Experience with a container orchestration tool like Docker Compose or ECS
5 years of Bash shell scripting experience
At least 2 years experience with GitHub and any branching strategy
Team player and work well with others regardless of skill levels
Familiarity with architectural best practices
Experience with Jenkins and building Jenkins Pipelines using Groovy
Experience creating shared Jenkins libraries
Familiarity with Puppet
Familiarity with the customer Operating System
Understanding of Docker Orchestration tools like ECS or Docker Compose