DevOps Engineer

About the Company

By Light Professional IT Services LLC equips warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, and support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds, and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications, and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force.

About the Role

Research, develop, implement, and maintain DevOps processes and tools to automate the integration and deployment of complex DoD cybersecurity software applications. Maintain deployment of multiple software baselines with custom Virtual Machine (VM) and container configurations development, testing, and deployment activities. Ensure the DevOps environment facilitates designing, implementing, deploying, and executing automated tests, and investigating new technologies to continually improve DevOps processes. Collect, process, and present build, network, security, performance, and other information and metrics to show automation improvements or degradations over time. Balance hybrid cloud distribution between private corporate infrastructure and public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Perform duties involving DevOps functions including authoring and maintaining automation deployment and monitoring scripts.
• Research, implement, and maintain Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) tools and processes.
• Automate application deployments, manage virtualized and containerized assets, and create virtual and physical network configurations, servers, communications, and test and developer engineering support.
• Author and maintain scripts in a variety of languages; ensure work products are configuration managed.
• Analyze real-world problems and implement solutions according to corporate guidelines, DoD DevOps guidance, and industry best practices.
• Assure system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
• Support the implementation and operation of a fully automated CI-CD pipeline leveraging enterprise container and virtualization platforms.
• Monitor, maintain, install, and support networked virtual machines, containers, and software applications.
• Assist software developers, integration, and test engineers to best utilize DevOps capabilities.
• Troubleshoot capabilities to diagnose system problems.
• Utilize an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work.
• Prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
• Lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
• Convey system-wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Jira, and Confluence.
• Train others to perform similar DevOps and automation tasks; support a corporate library of knowledge by maintaining and evangelizing content.
• Interact with developers to understand software changes impacting development and testing activities, examine change implementation, and report changes to developers and testers.
• Solve technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.

Requirements

• Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology from an accredited college or university.
• Three years of work experience preferred.
• Security+ certification required within 6 months of date of hire; additional certifications are a plus or working towards certification(s).
• IAT Level II or greater; Security+, CISSP, or other equivalent certification within six months of date of hire.
• Understanding of commercial DevOps tools and processes.
• Use scripting languages for automation, administration, data collection, and reporting.
• Ability to write, test, debug, deploy, and sustain scripts.
• Configuration manage, version control, and backup various scripts and work products.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills.
• U.S. Citizenship status and a TS/SCI security clearance (requirements specified in the Government's Task Order).

Skills

• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA), Jenkins Pipelines, Puppet, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Harbor, Kustomize.
• Experience with private and hybrid cloud design/operation/monitoring/deployment.
• VMware vCenter and ESXi, generally maintained at the most current version.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn Kubernetes and Docker.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn OpenShift.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn Ansible to automate deployment and destruction of virtual machine, network, and other virtualized assets in VMware environments.
• Ability to design and implement self-service portals for conducting DevOps or IT-related activities.
• Prior or current experience with Agile development processes.

Pay

Salary range: $115,000 – $135,000. The annual base salary provided is a guideline and not a guarantee of compensation. When extending an offer, CESI considers variables such as work experience, education, training, skill set, internal peer equity, clearance level, and market conditions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Wellness Program
• 401(k) Matching
• Disability (Short Term & Long Term)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Education & Training
• Generous Leave Policy (11 Federal Holidays, PTO, Military Leave, Bereavement, and Jury Duty)