DevOps Engineer - Colorado Springs, CO
About The Position
Davidson is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the Modeling and Simulation Vistas - Threat and Advanced Simulations Development (MSV-TASD) program. The role splits time between Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, and requires daily onsite work; limited remote or hybrid work is available. The engineer will work collaboratively to understand system requirements and design, implement, and maintain DevOps solutions that enable efficient, secure, and repeatable software development and delivery. The role uses CI/CD, containerization, testing, quality and security tools, configuration management, scripting, and secure credential and identity management to support distributed modeling and simulation environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; or a master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related experience; or a Ph.D. in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related experience.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support business needs.
- Experience with containerization and container runtime technologies such as Docker, Podman, or similar.
- Experience with automated testing and software development pipelines or factories, such as unit, integration, or acceptance tests in CI/CD.
- Experience deploying applications in containerized environments.
- Experience with CI/CD and related tools such as the Atlassian tool suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Coverity, or Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux operating systems.
- Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Strong experience with Linux administration, shell scripting, and operations in production-like environments.
- Experience implementing and maintaining automated software testing and analysis within CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with hypervisors and virtualized medium- and high-trust environments, including experience with hypervisors in medium-trust environments.
- Experience with credential and identity management solutions, such as credential managers, service accounts, Keycloak, or similar technologies, to securely manage non-interactive access.
- Exposure to Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience developing software in a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.
- Experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and tools such as Gherkin and Cucumber for automated acceptance testing.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable software delivery.
- Automate infrastructure deployment, scaling, and management using configuration management and scripting tools.
- Implement and manage containerization technologies such as Docker and Podman, including rootless or rootful configurations where appropriate.
- Collaborate with development and test teams to improve build, integration, and deployment processes.
- Integrate automated testing and quality or security tools, including static analysis, code quality, and coverage tools, into CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor system and pipeline performance and implement improvements to ensure reliability and availability.
- Implement and maintain security, compliance, and configuration baselines across environments.
- Use identity and credential management tools, such as credential managers and service accounts, to support secure automation and access control.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
