Senior DevOps Engineer - SSATI

Senior DevOps Engineer, Clearance Required – TS/SCI w/Polygraph

The Work:

This contract supports compliance solutions and integration, as well as development and sustainment of analytic services and hosting platforms to sustain analytics, threads, and services to enable the agency and tactical customers' missions and goals throughout the extended enterprise. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• A current Top-Secret/SCI government security clearance with polygraph is required.
  
• Fluent with Git
  
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 617/8, RHCSNRHCE CentOS)
  
• Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency and performance.
  
• 10+ years working in an Agile dev environment (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)
  
• Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred
  
• Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, etc.)
  
• Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus). Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance etc.
  
• 10+ years of system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read the code and understand the coding logic to assist in troubleshooting
  
• 10+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment
  
• Familiarity with software development life cycle models, agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
  
• Fluent skills in object oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, GO, Python, or Java.
  
• Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
  
• Ability to successfully work with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff
  
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
  
• Clarity and precision in verbal and written communications
  

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, You Will:

• Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
  
• Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production
  
• Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
  
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
  
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, testing, QA, and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
  
• Set-up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
  
• Maintain/upgrade/patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence / Jira)
  
• Create, assist, and implement design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployments
  
• Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements
  
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated
  
• Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements
  
• Assist with support and operations where necessary
  
• Maintain confidentiality about information being processed, stored, or accessed
  
• Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java
  
• Act in the capacity to support deployment and operations when necessary
  
• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
  
• Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
  
•  Work cross functionally across multiple teams
  

Work Site: Greater Ft. Meade, MD area.

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At Sensible Solutions and Technologies, Inc. (SSATI), we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our services, and our community.  SSATI is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.