DevOps Engineer / Principal DevOps Engineer

Status: Open Until Filled

Position Title: DevOps Engineer / Principal DevOps Engineer

Department/Location: LW-SimTEC/Oklahoma City

Status: Regular/Full-Time Exempt

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Position Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer / Principal DevOps Engineer you will lead agile DevOps initiatives to automate CI/CD pipelines, optimize infrastructure, and ensure secure, efficient system operations.  Drive innovation in deployment, monitoring, and provisioning with cutting-edge tools and methodologies to deliver rapid, reliable software solutions supporting mission- critical objectives.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
  • Integrate development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.
  • Define and implement standards for build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring 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.
  • Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
  • Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
  • Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
  • Collaborate with development teams to maintain and add to an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.
  • Work with vendors and IT personnel for problem resolution.
  • Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
  • Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and reduce human intervention time on tasks.
  • Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
  • Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
  • Oversee security, backup, and redundancy strategies for the company.
  • Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.
  • Facilitate Quality Management System Committee in various quality initiatives to ensure alignment with the overall Long Wave Inc. business direction.
  • Build Metric Reporting Infrastructure ensuring that sites have an effective method to collect, interpret, and report accurate business and customer performance data.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Active DoD Secret clearance
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
  • For a DevOps Engineer:
    • Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of software development experience;
    • 0 years with a Master’s;
    • or 6 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
  • For a Principal DevOps Engineer:
    • Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of software development experience;
    • 3 years with a Master’s;
    • or 9 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Administration experience with Linux, Windows Server, and Windows 10 and greater operating systems.
  • Experience in an Agile software development framework.
  • Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite (Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence).
  • Security+ certification (not needed to start but must be obtained within 6 months).

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance (must be able to obtain/pass a polygraph).
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Development pipeline experience.
  • Experience building applications using Bamboo, Jenkins, or similar tools.
  • VMWare Certification or Experience (vRealize Automation (vRO), vRealize Orchestrator (vRA), vSphere Center).
  • Container management using Docker and Kubernetes (K8s) preferred.
  • Experience in secure virtualization and containerization system design.
  • Experience administering virtualized or containerized systems in VMWare and Docker.
  • Scripting experience with PowerShell, Ansible, Node.js, or Java.
  • Source code management using Git/Bitbucket.
  • Experience automating tasks using Bamboo, Ansible, and/or Terraform.
  • Knowledge of working practices such as Git-Flow and release schedules.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting networking, including subnetting, VLANs, and VPNs.
  • Experience in secure network architecture design.
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