DevOps Engineer - Level 3 (AHT)

Description

This Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 3 role sits in the Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations and Missile Defense Integration business unit and supports the Modeling and Simulation Vistas Threat and Advanced Simulations Development program.

The team builds and runs DevOps pipelines and secure environments for distributed modeling and simulation work, on projects that feed into current industry advances.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Responsibilities

• Work with system requirements and design, then build, run and maintain DevOps solutions using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab Runner, Bamboo, Docker, Podman, SonarQube, Gherkin and Cucumber, aiming for efficient, secure and repeatable software delivery.
• Use containerization and secure credential and identity management to support distributed modeling and simulation environments.
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines so software ships often and reliably.
• Automate infrastructure deployment, scaling and management with configuration management and scripting tools.
• Set up and manage containers with Docker, Podman or similar, choosing rootless or rootful configurations where they fit.
• Work with development and test teams to improve how software is built, integrated and deployed.
• Add automated testing and quality and security checks, such as static analysis, code quality and coverage, to the pipelines.
• Monitor system and pipeline performance and make changes that improve reliability and uptime.
• Keep security, compliance and configuration baselines in place across all environments.
• Use credential managers and service accounts to automate securely and control access.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited institution plus 5 years of related experience, or a Master's degree in a STEM discipline plus 3 years of related experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline plus 1 year of related experience.
• Current, active, in-scope U.S. Government issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, required to start.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to meet business needs.
• Experience with containers and container runtimes such as Docker, Podman or similar.
• Experience with automated testing in software development pipelines or factories, such as unit, integration or acceptance tests in CI/CD.
• Experience deploying applications in containerized environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and related tools such as the Atlassian suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Coverity or Jenkins.
• Hands-on experience with Unix or Linux systems.
• Preferred: strong Linux administration, shell scripting and operations experience in production-like environments.
• Preferred: experience implementing and maintaining automated software testing and analysis in CI/CD pipelines.
• Preferred: familiarity with hypervisors and virtualized medium- and high-trust environments.
• Preferred: experience with credential and identity management for non-interactive access, using tools such as credential managers, service accounts or Keycloak.
• Preferred: exposure to Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Preferred: experience developing software in a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.
• Preferred: experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and tools such as Gherkin and Cucumber for automated acceptance testing.

Conditions

You will work onsite daily, with very limited remote or hybrid work available.

You will split your time between a company facility in Colorado Springs and Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado.

Clearance is required to start: a current, active, in-scope U.S. Government Secret clearance at the time of application.

The base salary range for the primary level is $103,600.00 to $155,400.00. This is a general guideline, and the company considers scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions when setting an offer.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary annual bonus that rewards individual contributions and shares company results.
• Employees in Vice President or Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company paid holidays and paid time off for vacation or personal business.