Senior DevOps Engineer

bcore•Springfield, VA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Bcore is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support the NGA customer mission in Springfield, Virginia, or St. Louis, Missouri. The role strengthens software delivery practices, automation, and operational discipline, bridging development and operations to improve collaboration and deliver releases with greater reliability and less disruption. The engineer will enhance observability, monitoring, and incident response, and improve system configuration management and documentation to support scalability, resilience, and operational excellence. The position involves configuring CI/CD for multiple web applications; building applications from source code and dependencies; performing automated testing and security scans; and deploying to development, staging, and operations environments. The engineer will work with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, author Helm charts for OpenShift deployments, and document system security, architecture, software updates, and security compliance. The role also includes researching, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex enterprise cloud solutions and software; addressing complex hardware/software compatibility and interface design issues; considering emerging technologies and supportability; contributing to technical documentation; preparing reports and presenting findings; and advising hardware engineers on machine characteristics that affect software systems. Applicants must hold an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and be eligible to obtain a CI polygraph. A relevant technical certification is required. A bachelor’s degree in a related field or two additional years of IT experience is required, along with at least six years of experience. The posting also describes eight years of experience designing and implementing complex systems in a classified environment.

Requirements

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph.
One or more technical certifications, such as Network+, Security+, or CISSP.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, or a related field, or two additional years of information technology experience.
At least six years of experience.
Eight years of experience designing and implementing complex systems in a classified environment, as stated in the job duties.
Proficiency with Linux operating systems.
Working experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar.
Knowledge of OIDC/OAuth/Auth2 or similar zero-trust identity implementations.
Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-style operations management.
Experience with web server management, including DNS and certificate management.
Knowledge of HTTP API design standards and best practices.
Ability to manage networking for web applications, including TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, and knowledge of AWS.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools or platforms such as Terraform, OpenShift Containerized Platform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
Knowledge of monitoring and logging, and network and security for containers.
Experience deploying and managing databases and interacting with databases through SQL and ORMs.
Ability to write Python and BASH to create systems tooling.
Ability to contribute code updates or tweaks to existing code repositories.
Experience with software system design and creating application architecture diagrams for new applications.
Experience integrating security components with applications and databases.
In-depth knowledge of enterprise solution principles and methods, information processing fundamentals, and best practices.
Experience developing strategic system architecture plans and creating and developing systems and networks.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Configuration Management and Request for Change processes for review and assessment.
Experience implementing zero-downtime re-indexing strategies and managing complex Elasticsearch data models, such as routing, query-time, and de-duplication, in an OpenShift/Kubernetes environment.
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Alloy, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, or Grafana.
Understanding of reverse proxies such as Nginx, Traefik, Apache HTTP Server (WebGate), HAProxy, or Envoy.
Experience delivering integrated solutions using Agile software delivery techniques.
Experience in systems engineering and project/program management.
Knowledge of or experience with customer enterprise products (CORE).
Intelligence Community experience.

Responsibilities

Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications.
Build applications using source code and dependencies.
Perform automated testing and security scans.
Deploy applications to development, staging, and operations environments.
Manage Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
Author Helm charts to deploy resources to OpenShift.
Manage and document system security, including software updates in response to scan findings and documentation of systems and architecture to demonstrate security compliance.
Research, design, develop, modify, test, and debug enterprise-wide cloud solutions and complex software applications.
Develop strategic system architecture plans and contribute to system and network creation and development.
Resolve complex hardware/software compatibility and interface design considerations.
Conduct complex investigations and tests, factoring emerging technologies and product supportability into design and implementation.
Contribute to technical documentation, including user manuals, system documentation, and training materials.
Advise hardware engineers on machine characteristics affecting software systems, including storage capacity, processing speed, and input/output requirements.
Prepare reports on analyses, findings, and project progress, and present results to management and customer personnel.
Improve observability, monitoring, incident response, system configuration management, and documentation.