DevOps Engineer

About the role

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. 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, training and other 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. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Author and maintain 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.
• Create virtual and physical network configurations, servers, communications, and test and developer engineering support.
• Author and maintain scripts in a variety of languages.
• Configuration manage work products.
• Analyze real world problems and implement solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, 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 that leverages 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.
• Trouble-shoot capabilities to diagnose system problems.
• Utilize an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work.

Qualifications

• 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+ required within 6 months of date of hire.
• 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.
• Ability to write, test, debug, deploy, and sustain scripts using scripting languages for automation, administration, data collection and reporting.
• Ability to configuration manage, version control, and backup various scripts and work products created to execute and maintain the environment.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
• Ability to lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills.
• Ability to professionally convey system-wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to train others to perform similar DevOps and automation tasks.
• Ability to support a corporate library of knowledge by maintaining and evangelizing content.
• Ability to interact with developers to understand software changes that will impact development and testing activities, examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements.
• Ability to solve technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.

Skills

• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA, etc.), 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 Minimum $115,000, Salary Maximum $135,000. The annual base salary provided is a guideline for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. When extending an offer, CESI also considers other variables such as (but not limited to) 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)