DevOps Engineer

About the role

BAI, a defense contractor, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support TEALMISSILE, located at Annapolis Junction, MD. Opportunities for career advancement, excellent benefits, and long-term stability are among the advantages of our growing, employee-focused company.

Responsibilities

• Shall have at least eight (8) years’ experience in DevOps development/engineering such as installing and configuring software; managing servers, networks, and technology tools; monitoring and maintaining systems for required levels of security, performance, and accreditation; and troubleshooting issues and outages
• Shall have at least eight (8) years’ experience in DevOps technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ELK
• Shall have at least eight (8) years’ experience in scripting such as Terraform, Ansible
• Familiarity with developing DevOps for Microsoft Windows or UNIX/Linux/Centos family of operating systems
• Understand technical writing and have familiarity with technical documents in support of a software development project
• Efforts will focus on DevOps engineering of a modernization effort to converge NSA’s authoring, dissemination, and other supporting tools
• Deploying applications; installing and configuring complex software; managing network servers and technology tools; monitoring and maintaining the system for required levels of performance; and troubleshooting issues and outages
• Candidates will be required to work a rotating pager schedule for emergency 24/7 call-in support as required (roughly one week out of every 4-6 weeks)
• Staff may charge 4 additional hours for the week they are on call in addition to hours worked

Requirements

• Work location is a combination of 135 National Business Parkway, Annapolis Junction, MD and up to 1 day per week of telework as project tasking allows

Qualifications / Required technical skills

• Experience with Linux
• AWS, MASH, and VMs
• Docker Swarm
• Deployments of distributed web applications (e.g. GitLab CI/CD)
• Terraform scripting and VM provisioning
• Ansible scripting and development
• Thorough understanding of Docker & Docker Compose container technology
• Git

Desired Experience / technical skills

• Experience with Python scripting and development
• NiFi maintenance and configuration
• Elasticsearch maintenance and configuration
• Java / Spring Boot (troubleshooting error logs)
• HAProxy
• MongoDB

Skills

Front End Back End Full Stack Agile Software Development Practices Application Programming Interface (API) principles Artificial Intelligence Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) Automated Testing Cloud Analytics Cloud-based System Administration Containerization Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) Data Modeling DevOps Distributed Web Applications Firewall Administration Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Kanban Software Development Practices Large Language Models Machine Learning Microservices Monitoring and Alerting Network Engineering Recommender Services Relational Databases Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Scripting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems Engineering Technical Documentation User Accessibility Virtual Machines Web Services Commercial Technologies Accumulo ActiveMQ Akka Angular Ansible Apache Apache NiFi Apollo Artemis ASP.NET Atlassian Backbone.js Bash scripting Bootstrap Cassandra CentOS CoffeeScript CSS Cypress Docker Docker Compose Docker Swarm Drools Eclipse Elasticsearch ExtJS Flink Git Gitlab Gradle Grafana GWT Hadoop HAProxy Hazelcast Heron Hibernate HTML IDE Firebug Java JavaScript JBlocks Jenkins Jetty Jira/Confluence JMS jQuery JSON Kafka KeyDB Kibana Kubernetes Linux Logstash Maven MongoDB MBatis MySQL nginx Node.js OpenSSL Oracle PKI Certificate Administration Percona Postgres Prometheus Pulsar Puppet Python Rancher React.js Redis RESTful Web Services SaltStack Scala Selenium SOAP Web Services Splunk Spring Spring Boot Spring Cloud Spring MVC/Beans SQL Squirrel Storm Subversion Swagger Sybase Terraform Terragrunt Tomcat Typescript Vue.js Web Security XML Zookeeper

Education

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• Master’s degree can be substituted for two (2) years’ experience

CLEARANCE

Top secret clearance required.

Condition of Employment

• Applicant must have an active Top Secret Clearance

CITIZENSHIP

The applicant must have US citizenship at the time of application.

BAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other non-merit based factors made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.