Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

Noblis is helping FAA manage large and complex telecommunications and information management programs. We are seeking a smart, passionate, and motivated individual to join our team in a challenging and rewarding work environment.

This is an opportunity for an experienced, driven software solutions architect to join a dynamic team working to implement and manage the FAA’s highly-visible System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program as part of the NextGen transformation strategy.

• Support the SFDPS engineering team by implementing container builds, writing automation scripts, and operating services in Red Hat-based environments under mentor guidance.
• Work in Agile teams and follow CI/CD pipelines to enable migration to the FAA cloud platform.
• Containerize application components (Docker/Podman) and create reproducible container images.
• Maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development/test hosts and follow hardening baselines.
• Support CI/CD jobs (Jenkins/GitLab CI/ArgoCD) by creating and updating pipeline scripts.
• Implement basic Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for test environments (Ansible, Terraform modules).
• Contribute to unit and integration testing, and assist with build troubleshooting.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
• Aid in documentation (runbooks, deployment playbooks).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree and 6 years of relevant professional experience or Associates degree and 8 years of relevant professional experience
• Hands-on experience with Linux (preferably RHEL) and shell scripting (bash, Python)
• Software development experience with Java, Go, Python, or .Net
• Some exposure or coursework experience with C or C++ programming is a plus
• Strong scripting skills with for automation tasks
• Familiarization with Java build tools and basic debugging techniques
• Experience building container images using Docker or Podman
• Familiarity with Git and basic CI/CD concepts
• Exposure to container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift) or willingness to learn quickly
• Comfortable working in Agile teams
• Willingness and aptitude to learn and contribute to code refactoring and containerization of legacy Java/C/C++ components

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Ansible or Terraform
• Basic cloud exposure (AWS/Azure/GCP or FedRAMP-authorized cloud)
• Coursera/edX or vendor certs in Linux, Docker, or Cloud Fundamentals
• Prior experience supporting FAA or federal systems (advantageous)
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues
• Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub)