Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
• Automate deployment processes across development, staging, and production environments
• Manage Nexus Repository for artifact storage and dependency management
• Develop and maintain procedures and infrastructure automation solutions
• Troubleshoot and resolve CI/CD pipeline issues
• Build and maintain container images as needed
• Infrastructure & Database Support
• Build and maintain Apache Solr clusters with Zookeeper in production
• Administer and upgrade Windows Server environments
• Plan and execute VMware to AWS migration strategies
• Configure and manage AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS)
• Support standalone Oracle database environments
• Monitor system performance and implement optimizations
• Developer/QA Support & Collaboration
• Work closely with development team on CI/CD pipeline support
• Troubleshoot developer workstation setup issues
• Resolve build and deployment issues
• Debug interface and integration problems
• Support development team for end-to-end buildout of entire application components
• Support development environment configuration and tooling
• Security & Compliance
• Implement security controls in VMware and AWS environments
• Apply security best practices for government information systems
• Ensure compliance with security policies and standards
• Manage IAM policies and access controls
• Migration & Modernization
• Execute infrastructure modernization initiatives
• Document data migration strategies and procedures during deployment/upgrades
• Minimize downtime during transitions and upgrades

Qualifications

• 18 Years of experience in Software or Systems Engineering roles or a highly related field of work with similar scope and responsibilities
• Hands-on experience setting up build infrastructure with GitLab for development
• Strong expertise in Windows Server administration to include working on Windows Server or VM to setup and maintain authentication via LDAP or Active Directory
• Strong expertise in setting up and/or managing services in AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFormation/Terraform)
• Experience in installation, setup, and configuration of full-stack applications
• Infrastructure-as-code practices
• Containerization strategies for Java applications
• Configuration management tools
• Implementing security controls in both on-premises VMware and cloud environments
• Building and maintaining Apache Solr clusters with Zookeeper in production environments