Junior DevOps Engineer - Newport, RI

Serco•RI-Newport US-RI-Middletown US-RI-Warwick, RI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Position Description Software Engineer – DevOps focus You will be part of a growing team in Newport, RI working at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center that is designing, constructing, and delivering the next generation of undersea warfare Training Systems to the Fleet. Your focus will be on delivery of the Training Systems, helping to solve challenges providing the automation for integration and testing of the hardware, operating system, system configuration and software. Your primary goal will be to provide a robust continuous delivery pipeline to integrate and test engineering changes from the development teams, providing the teams fast and comprehensive feedback. You will also be responsible for providing processes and tools to improve developer experience. We are looking explicitly for candidates who align more with software engineering than operations. In this role, you will: Implement continuous delivery best practices within our software development lifecycle. Implement and support a continuous integration and continuous delivery model to streamline development, deployment and testing of multiple software baselines. Work with systems and software engineers to deploy operating systems and software builds along with supporting the development infrastructure of required tools. Partner with engineering teams to automate every stage of the software development life cycle. Assist in designing and implementing an infrastructure to support DevOps practices in an on premises cloud environment, including but not limited to: Refine and simplify the process of delivering engineering changes to the Training Systems. Recommend and introduce tools to help achieve this goal. Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the development workflow and delivery of the Training Systems. Identify automation opportunities within configuration management, build, packaging, deployment, and testing. Design, implement, alter, and test CI/CD pipelines. Build tools to reduce the overhead and streamline building, packaging, deploying, and testing. Creating solutions to give developers fast feedback on engineering changes. Researching and delivering new and innovative methods for providing continuous delivery solutions. Develop automated test tools to verify build and deployment mechanisms. This position has no on-call requirements

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant STEM field.
More than two years of experience in a Software Engineer role
Proficiency working in Linux environments (RHEL7/CentOS7, RHEL8/CentOS8).
Proficiency working with Bash Shell Scripting
Proviciency working with Python
Proficiency working with Ansible
Experience with at least one compiled language (e.g. C, C++, Rust, Go)
Ability to obtain a secret clearance

Nice To Haves

Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle
General understanding of the build automation process
Experience with virtual machine provisioning and configuration
Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.
Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
Self-directed and motivated to learn
Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.
Working knowledge of Make and/or Clearcase
Working knowledge of Gradle
Working knowledge of Puppet/Chef, Nexus/Artifactory, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes, SonarQube
Active secret clearance
Well versed in modern continuous delivery principles and best practices
Experience with virtualization architectures including RedHat KVM, VMWare ESXi/vSphere

Responsibilities

Implement continuous delivery best practices within our software development lifecycle.
Implement and support a continuous integration and continuous delivery model to streamline development, deployment and testing of multiple software baselines.
Work with systems and software engineers to deploy operating systems and software builds along with supporting the development infrastructure of required tools.
Partner with engineering teams to automate every stage of the software development life cycle.
Assist in designing and implementing an infrastructure to support DevOps practices in an on premises cloud environment, including but not limited to:
Refine and simplify the process of delivering engineering changes to the Training Systems.
Recommend and introduce tools to help achieve this goal.
Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the development workflow and delivery of the Training Systems.
Identify automation opportunities within configuration management, build, packaging, deployment, and testing.
Design, implement, alter, and test CI/CD pipelines.
Build tools to reduce the overhead and streamline building, packaging, deploying, and testing.
Creating solutions to give developers fast feedback on engineering changes.
Researching and delivering new and innovative methods for providing continuous delivery solutions.
Develop automated test tools to verify build and deployment mechanisms.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Robust vacation and sick leave benefits, and flexible work arrangements where permitted by role or contract
401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds
Tuition reimbursement program
Life insurance and disability coverage
Optional coverages you can buy, including pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
Employee Assistance Plan that includes counseling conditions

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