DevOps Engineer
Location: Reston, VA or Bolling, AFB
Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly
Company Description:
Our great client is a 8(a), HUBZone-certified technology company based in Washington, D.C. Since our founding in 2003, we have been providing computer software integration services to several Government agencies and commercial firms. Many of our federal contracts are agencies in the US Intelligence Community and National Defense Community.
Program Description:
This role supports the Defense Intelligence Agency – The DIA provides military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers, and force planners in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.
Job Description:
Location: Reston, VA or Bolling, AFB
Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly
Company Description:
Our great client is a 8(a), HUBZone-certified technology company based in Washington, D.C. Since our founding in 2003, we have been providing computer software integration services to several Government agencies and commercial firms. Many of our federal contracts are agencies in the US Intelligence Community and National Defense Community.
Program Description:
This role supports the Defense Intelligence Agency – The DIA provides military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers, and force planners in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.
Job Description:
- Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis. Ultimately responsible for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility
- Establish state-of-the-art techniques for designing, developing, modifying, and troubleshooting highly complex computer operating hardware system
- Design operating/hardware systems; formulate system concepts and architecture, specific requirements, and develop implementation approaches.
- Identify and direct resolution of complex hardware/software interface issues; subject matter expert on emerging technologies; direct the development of systems specifications and technical documentation
- Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life-cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas
- Provide expert guidance and direction to Government and Vendor senior level technicians and managers; interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts; communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives
- Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology; provide recommendations for continuous improvement; work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance the organization’s capabilities
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, analyst, project managers, and other engineers
- Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Analyze, design, and develop tests and test-automation suites
- Guide users in formulating requirements, advise alternative approaches, and conduct feasibility studies
- Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications and documentation; analyze system requirements and lead design and development activities
- Guide system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans
- Design and develop a processing platform using various configuration management technologies
- Test software development methodology in an agile environment
- Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements in existing systems and platforms.
- Troubleshoot complex problems and provide customer support for software systems and application issues
- Oversee and monitor performance across several disciplines, and when required, takes steps to resolve issues.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience 8-10 years of related software development experience
- Hands-on development experience.
- Extensive experience with Redhat and/or Centos
- Demonstrated experience in server builds using automated mechanism
- Demonstrated experience with Ansible playbooks or puppet modules for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching, and software development
- Demonstrated experience with Ansible or Puppet
- Demonstrated experience with Gitlab
- Demonstrated experience deploying Docker engines in virtualized platforms for containerization of multiple apps
- DevOps experience building and deploying cloud infrastructure with technologies like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
- Hands-on experience with data formats including XML, PCAP, images, and media
- Hands-on experience with Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, Spark, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, Flume
- Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision
- Possess 3-5 years of experience and familiarity with the following software/tools:
- Infrastructure automation technologies like Docker, Vagrant, etc.
- Build automation technologies like Maven, Jenkins, etc.
- Monitoring technologies like Nagios, Ganglia, etc.
- Modern programming languages like Java, Python, etc.
- Building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
- Elastic Search and relational database