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Halogen Engineering Group, Inc•Columbia, MD

15h•$172,000 - $182,000•Onsite

About The Position

Halogen Engineering Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support platform architecture, deployment, debugging, and operations in an onsite role in Columbia, Maryland. The position supports the development life cycle and delivery of critical business software, including building release pipelines for safe and rapid production delivery and maintaining Git-based configuration management practices. The engineer will automate deployments across development, test, staging, quality assurance, and production environments; configure sites and applications using tools such as Puppet and Ansible; maintain Confluence and Jira; and help design and maintain web service infrastructure. The role also involves analyzing service stacks, recommending improvements, identifying processes for automation, communicating across stakeholders and development teams, and assisting with support and operations. The engineer will contribute as an Agile technical lead, participate in team ceremonies, and help configure continuous integration environments using configuration management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes. The position requires a current TS/SCI clearance and a polygraph less than five years old. Travel is not required. The listed annual salary range is $172,000–$182,000.

Requirements

Current TS/SCI security clearance and a polygraph less than five years old.
Fluency with Git.
Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments, including RHEL 6/7/8 and CentOS; RHCSA/RHCE knowledge is listed.
Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency, and performance.
At least five years working in an Agile development environment; education experience does not count toward this requirement.
At least five years of system architecture experience, with the ability to read code and understand coding logic to assist with troubleshooting.
At least five years of experience managing and monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance in a PaaS environment.
Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or Computer Science, with at least five years of related experience; education experience does not count toward the experience requirement.
Familiarity with software development life cycle models, Agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
Fluent object-oriented programming skills and experience with at least one language such as Ruby, C, C++, Go, Python, or Java.
Experience acquiring an in-depth understanding of large, complex software systems to isolate and reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
Ability to work successfully with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff.
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and technical troubleshooting skills.
Clear and precise verbal and written communication.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of information being processed, stored, or accessed.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating Jenkins or Bamboo, Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment.
Experience with caching technologies such as Memcache, ActiveMQ, Redis, or APC.
Experience with MySQL clusters, replication, and tuning.
Experience with Elasticsearch; Kibana is a plus.
Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, and PCI compliance.

Responsibilities

Support platform architectural design, deployment, and debugging throughout the development life cycle.
Build release pipelines that enable fast and safe delivery of critical business software to production.
Develop and maintain Git-based configuration management systems and branching and merging strategies.
Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and participate in planning, grooming, product demonstrations, and retrospectives.
Automate release deployments across development, test, staging, quality assurance, and production environments using scripting languages and automation toolkits.
Set up sites and applications using configuration management tools such as Puppet and Ansible.
Maintain, upgrade, and patch tracking and documentation software, including Confluence and Jira.
Assist in designing and maintaining web service infrastructure and deployments.
Analyze service stacks and recommend improvements.
Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated.
Communicate across stakeholders and development teams to bridge stakeholder and development requirements.
Assist with support and operations as needed.
Maintain confidentiality of information being processed, stored, or accessed.
Use programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java.
Apply DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies and take a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture.
Set up and configure continuous integration environments using configuration management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
Manage and monitor AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance in a PaaS environment.
Investigate complex software systems to isolate and reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand customer deployments.
Work with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff.

Benefits

Three medical plans: two Platinum PPO plans with $0 deductible and one HSA plan with a $1,500 deductible.
Company pays 100% of medical premium costs up to $25,000.
CareFirst Wellness Rewards Program.
Dental plan; company pays 50% of plan costs.
Vision plan; company pays 100% of plan costs.
401(k) retirement plan with a 10% company contribution, automatically vested and paid each pay period.
Life insurance, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
20 paid time off days.
Six federal holidays.
Five floating holidays.
Performance- and billable-hours-based bonuses.