Junior DevOps Engineer

Nightwing • Annapolis Junction, MD

2d

About The Position

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Nightwing is seeking a highly motivated Junior DevOps engineer to join our technical team. This entry-level role is ideal for a recent college graduate with strong foundations in software build environments and maintenance tools for automated, fast, and secure software delivery, by creating CI/CD pipelines, managing infrastructure-as-code, monitoring systems, and automating releases to ensure smooth, reliable application deployment and performance, requiring strong collaboration and technical skills in automation and system administration.

Requirements

• Willingness to obtain Top Secret /SCI with POLY
• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools in Python and Ansible
• Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of Linux systems
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners.
• Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Software Engineering, System Engineering, Computer Science, or another related field

Nice To Haves

• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
• Kubernetes experience

Benefits

• medical, vision and dental insurance coverage
• 401k plan
• PTO
• Holidays
• additional insurances

What This Job Offers

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