DevOps Engineer

Bridge Core (BCore)•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

Data Automation Engineer City, VA TS/SCI with Poly At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions. Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team supporting customer missions as a Data Automation Engineer in City, State. BCore is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months.

Requirements

BA/BS degree and 11-15 years experience
Expert in Linux operating system usage
Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck
Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices
Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit
Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo
Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.
Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)
Experience with Nexus administration
Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Well versed with using version control systems
Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a production environment.
Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and security best practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Elastic tools
Experience working in the Sponsor’s cloud environments
Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance
Experience with Sponsor’s release management tools and processes
AWS certification
Container-related certification
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification, demonstrating expertise in designing, building and running applications on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement
Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience
Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions
Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck
Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON
Experience with AWS CLI
Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward
Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model
Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage GitFlow constructs
Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers
System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months