DevOps Engineer

Metova Federal • Orlando, FL

10h • Onsite

About The Position

Research, develop, implement, and maintain DevOps processes and tools to automate the integration and deployment of complex DoD cybersecurity software applications. Maintain deployment of multiple software baselines with custom Virtual Machine (VM) and container configurations development, testing, and deployment activities. Ensure the DevOps environment facilitates designing, implementing, deploying, and executing automated tests, and investigating new technologies to continually improve DevOps processes. Collect, process, and present build, network, security, performance, and other information and metrics to show automation improvements or degradations over time. Balance hybrid cloud distribution between private corporate infrastructure and public clouds.

Requirements

• Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology from an accredited college or university.
• IAT Level II or greater.
• Security+ certification required within 6 months of date of hire.
• Understanding of commercial DevOps tools and processes.
• Ability to use scripting languages for automation, administration, data collection and reporting.
• Ability to write, test, debug, deploy, and sustain scripts.
• Ability to configuration manage, version control, and backup various scripts and work products created to execute and maintain the environment.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
• Ability to lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills.
• Ability to professionally convey system-wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to train others to perform similar DevOps and automation tasks.
• Ability to support a corporate library of knowledge by maintaining and evangelizing content.
• Ability to interact with developers to understand software changes that will impact development and testing activities, examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements.
• Ability to solve technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.
• U. S. Citizenship status.
• SECRET security clearance, with an ability to obtain a TOP SECRET security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Three years of work experience.
• Additional certifications or working towards a certification(s).
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA, etc.), Jenkins Pipelines, Puppet, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Harbor, Kustomize.
• Experience with private and hybrid cloud design/operation/monitoring/deployment.
• Experience with VMware vCenter and ESXi, generally maintained at the most current version.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn Kubernetes and Docker.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn OpenShift.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn Ansible to automate deployment and destruction of virtual machine, network, and other virtualized assets in VMware environments.
• Ability to design and implement self-service portals for conducting DevOps or IT related activities.
• Prior or current experience with Agile development processes.

Responsibilities

• Authoring and maintaining automation deployment and monitoring scripts.
• Researching, implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) tools and processes.
• Automating application deployments.
• Managing virtualized and containerized assets.
• Creating virtual and physical network configurations, servers, communications, and test and developer engineering support.
• Authoring and maintaining scripts in a variety of languages.
• Analyzing real world problems and implementing solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, DoD DevOps guidance, and industry best practices.
• Assuring system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
• Supporting the implementation and operation of a fully automated CI-CD pipeline that leverages enterprise container and virtualization platforms.
• Monitoring, maintaining, installing, and supporting networked virtual machines, containers and software applications.
• Assisting software developers, integration, and test engineers to best utilize DevOps capabilities.
• Troubleshooting capabilities to diagnose system problems.
• Utilizing an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Wellness Program
• 401(k) Matching
• Disability (Short Term & Long Term)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Education & Training
• Generous Leave Policy (11 Federal Holidays, PTO, Military Leave, Bereavement and Jury Duty)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree