DevOps Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. • Oak Ridge, TN

11h • Onsite

About The Position

The US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE OSTI) is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Technology team. This role focuses on preserving and disseminating DOE’s scientific and technical information via web applications. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for implementing DevOps best practices across the enterprise, providing technical guidance to development teams, improving agility and delivery speed, and driving cultural change toward a DevOps mindset. The primary responsibility is to develop and implement a strategy to migrate OSTI’s current application development process and applications to a more DevOps-styled deployment process by formalizing policies, procedures, and practices using DevOps tooling to deliver OSTI’s web applications. This is an onsite position in Oak Ridge, TN.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 1–3 years of experience managing DevOps systems, including tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, etc.
• 1–3 years of experience managing container infrastructure using Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and/or Docker.
• 1–3 years of experience utilizing configuration management and automation tools such as GitLab Ultimate, Ansible, Puppet, or other CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Fluency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, Go, or equivalent.
• Experience migrating Java and Python applications to containerized environments.
• Working knowledge of multiple operating systems and containerization solutions.
• Experience with RHEL 8.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, traffic analysis, common protocols, and network diagnostics.
• Previous experience working in a government, scientific, or other highly technical environment.
• Strong technical documentation skills, including the ability to prepare advanced technical documentation webpages.
• Excellent interpersonal skills suitable for user support, and the ability to work well with peer system administrators.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to balance complex research and operational requirements.
• Ability to provide proof of US Citizenship on your first day of employment to obtain a DOE HSPD-12 Badge in accordance with the terms of the contract. Department of Energy OSTI's policy direction requires all employees employed on this contract to be citizens of the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Background contributing to open-source projects, or involvement in hacker/maker spaces, is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain documentation and notes on software builds and installs and develop documented processes and procedures for migrating Java and Python applications to containerized DevOps deployment processes.
• Define and implement development best practices and standards within the organization and support the transition of current applications to these standards.
• Automate systems administration tasks utilizing open-source configuration management tools as part of a deployment pipeline.
• Identify automation opportunities to improve DevOps operations, make recommendations to management, and lead the implementation of improvements such as pipelines, container development, and related tooling.
• Review architecture and offer recommendations for improvements, and lead implementation efforts on containerized infrastructure.
• Embrace continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes. Provide training and documentation for junior-level staff on these processes.
• Work with the team to adopt and optimize a hybrid-cloud, software-defined infrastructure, and an infrastructure-as-code paradigm.
• Identify and document IT best practices that will improve the systems deployment function.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level