DevOps Engineer

Description

The role is a DevOps Engineer position in the software engineering job family, supporting a mission-critical government project.

You will help modernize the customer's tools for authoring, distributing and supporting content, which directly affects the customer's mission.

The company is a global technology and professional services firm with about 26,000 staff in more than 50 countries. It serves US government, defense and intelligence agencies with cloud, AI, cyber and software development work.

Responsibilities

• Engineer the modernization effort that brings the customer's authoring, dissemination and supporting tools together.
• Deploy applications and install and configure complex software.
• Manage network servers and technology tools.
• Monitor and maintain systems to meet required performance levels.
• Troubleshoot issues and outages.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• 15+ years of related experience.
• Strong DevOps background.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, AWS, MASH and virtual machines.
• Experience with Docker Swarm and deploying distributed web applications, for example using GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience with Terraform scripting and VM provisioning.
• Experience with Ansible scripting and development.
• Thorough understanding of Docker and Docker Compose container technology.
• Experience with Git.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance, or the ability to obtain it. No public trust clearance is required.
• US citizenship required.
• Desired: Python scripting and development.
• Desired: NiFi maintenance and configuration.
• Desired: Elasticsearch maintenance and configuration.
• Desired: Java and Spring Boot, including troubleshooting error logs.
• Desired: HAProxy.
• Desired: MongoDB.

Conditions

Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week, hybrid, based in Annapolis Junction, MD, USA, with up to one day per week telework as project tasking allows.

No travel is required.

You will join a rotating on-call schedule for emergency 24/7 call-in support, roughly one week in every four to six weeks. Staff on call may charge 4 additional hours for that week on top of hours worked.

Salary is likely to be between $164,382 and $212,750. The actual figure depends on experience, geographic location and possibly contract terms, and may fall outside this range.

The hiring process includes an identity verification step using biometrics and AI, and you must be on camera for virtual interviews.

Equal opportunity employer; individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are welcome to apply.

Benefits

• Medical plans, including options with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision plans for US-based employees.
• 401(k) with pre- and post-tax contributions up to IRS limits and a company match.
• Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel accident insurance, provided or available.
• An AI-powered career tool that suggests career steps and learning opportunities.
• Support from an internal mobility team to help reach career goals.
• A military-friendly workplace with a culture of innovation.