Network DevOps Engineer SME (24-282) E3 / COS-83 - Apex Systems

Job#: 2047496

Job Description:

24-282
Network DevOps Engineer SME
NES   
E3      
COS-83          
Secret
IAT - Level II -        
 

- The position requires a Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 5 years of professional experience; or 3 years of professional experience with a related Master\\s degree.
- The position requires a government security clearance. (DoD Secret – minimum, Top Secret - desired); 
 Key Words:
- GitLab
- Ansible
- Redhat
- Configuration Management
- Python
Basic Qualifications:
- The position requires a Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 7+ years of professional experience; or 9+ years of professional experience with a related Master\\s degree.
- The position requires a government security clearance. (DoD Secret – minimum, Top Secret - desired);
- Must be an effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft Office products, especially PowerPoint and Visio.
- Detail oriented and have the ability to follow processes.
- Experience as a DevOps Engineer.
- Establishing and following processes throughout project life cycles to maintain consistent configuration control, developing, operating, and maintaining GitLab database and other process management tools.
- Experience with creating and maintaining a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (Preferably Gitlab CI/CD) and GitLab and GitLab concepts such as branching, merging, etc.
- Experience with maintaining a Hardware Configuration Management Plan, maintain configuration item(s), change control, status accounting and audit verification.
- Experience with managing large data repositories of documents and folder structure.
- Experience with Ansible (Preferably Ansible Automation Platform)
- Experience with Containerization Binary & Artifact Management (Preferably Nexus),
- Experience utilizing tools such as Redhat Ansible, Powershell, bash, and Python to generate automated solutions to gather device metrics, configurations, and other needs.
 Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in Jira and Confluence.
- Knowledge of basic Network Engineering.
- Experience creating and updating processes and procedures.
- Developing KPIs and tracking other metrics and creating reports.
- Experience with containers, binary & artifact management and RHEL
- Experience in a DoD environment
- Prior C2BMC experience
 Role Description:
- - In this role the candidate will serve as a Network and Enterprise Services (NES) DevOps Engineering SME responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the CI/CD Pipeline with tools such as GitLab and Nexus, as well as developing and utilizing automation tools. This role will also require an understanding of how to execute configuration management processes, releases, and versioning of configurations for an infrastructure team. The position is based at a LM facility in Colorado Springs, CO in the long-term, however, this role must be able to travel to alternate work locations.
Responsibilities:
- - Will apply principles, theories, and concepts in their field and provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems with imaginative and thorough solutions.
- Will work without appreciable direction, and results are reviewed for desired results.
- Will function as the ARTs Subject Matter Expert and lead of the CI/CD Pipeline, Automation, Software Defined Networking, and any other DevOps/NetOps related items.
- Will represent the organization with program leadership and the customer on significant technical matters on contracts.
- Frequent internal and external customer contacts and represents the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects.
- Candidate will be responsible Gitlab, assuring proper documentation, training, and reporting is completed.
- Candidate will be responsible for executing configuration management utilizing existing program tools to include documentation, training and reporting.
- Candidate will work to improve the release processes utilized by the ART.
- Candidate will be responsible for developing, deploying and maintain a CI/CD pipeline for the NES ART.
- Candidate will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and presenting KPIs and other metrics related to the CI/CD Pipeline and other configuration management areas.
- The candidate will be responsible for building, training, and maintaining automation scripts that replace manual processes/configurations used by C2BMC.
- Any other required tasks by the program.
 About C2BMC: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense and combatant commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates and synchronizes autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.