Infrastructure Lead - Sr Principal DevOps Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and evolution of processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Leverage automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks for development pipelines.
• Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Lead the Agile development team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CI/CD tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
• Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.
• Collaborate with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Lead the monitoring and support for all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Create custom scripts to increase system efficiency and reduce human intervention time on tasks.
• Lead the design of information and operational support systems.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
• The willingness to submit and successfully pass a polygraph.
• Willing and able to obtain Security+ certification within 60 days.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8 + years of software development experience; 6 years with a Master's; 4 years with a Ph.D.; 12+ years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of DevSecOps toolkits, including Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Terraform, Git/Version Control Software, or comparable technologies.
• Ability to express technical information clearly at different organizational levels.
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and AWS Cloud architecture, security, and management.
• Experience successfully leading teams.
• Experience with Agile processes and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• CISM, CISSP or other Security Certifications (Required in first 60 days).
• Favorably adjudicated CI Polygraph.
• Experience creating, developing, and implementing solutions to address infrastructure and security requirements.
• Experience identifying the needs for building automation, designing, and implementing CI/CD solutions.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable quicker build and deployment.
• Successful experience leading a team of DevOps Engineers and/or System Administrators.
• Experience with Software development and deploying software into a cloud environment.
• Experience with successfully maintaining and updating an operational software baseline.