George Consulting - DevOps Engineer

DevOps Developer is needed in North Charleston, United States.

Job Description:

The Navy TacMobile team is modernizing its program, moving to a hybrid cloud concept managed through DEVSECOPS pipelines and Infrastructure as Code / Configuration as Code (IaC/CaC). They want rapid development and release of software capabilities (akin to the concepts in the book, The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim).

The successful applicant will work side-by-side with the TacMobile Increment 3 team to enable consistent, rapid delivery of products and updates at IaaS, PaaS and Tenant Application levels.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

·      Support enterprise operations services for source code management, builds, automated test frameworks, and infrastructure monitoring.

·      Pursue a rigorous, disciplined approach to DevOps and automation.

·      Develop, test, and maintain build and deployment scripts in CI/CD framework/tools to automate and streamline deployment processes and lockdown vCF-based infrastructure, as well as hosted VMs and Containers with IaC/CaC.

·      Work with stakeholders and product owners to ensure Continuous Test (CT) runners and gates incorporated into CI/CD pipelines are tailored to their needs.

·      Lead efforts in automation, continuous deployment, build, and configuration management.

o  Develop infrastructure as code automations to overcome inconsistencies, delays and vulnerabilities in that account generation, lockdown and delivery process

o  Develop playbooks for consistent delivery

·      Actively participate in Increment 3 Engineering Scrum and design meetings to drive quality releases.

·      Monitor applications and environments.

·      Correlate DEVSECOP Pipelines and IaC/CaC scripts to Risk Management Framework (RMF) controls.

·      Produce and maintain documentation on installations, procedures and requirements for systems.

·      Support standard Agile ceremonies (Iteration Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Reviews and Retrospectives) as necessary and assist Scrum teams in execution of Sprints.

·      Attend and actively participate in ad-hoc team meetings

·      Research, suggest, and apply new promising technologies, strategies and ways to solve technical issues.

·      Perform other duties as assigned

·      Able to work with other contractor teammates and customers daily.

·      Able to work closely with customers to ensure deliverables meet their expectations and arrive in a timely manner.

THIS POSITION REQUIRES THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN AN ACTIVE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TOP SECRET/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE.

Required Skills & Experience:

DEVSECOPS developer must have a good understanding of, and experience developing cradle-to-grave CI/CD pipelines covering from code submission triggers to deployment and final configuration with the use of IaC.

Ideal applicant will demonstrate an ingrained continuous-learning ability, be self-disciplined, have a willing flexibility in proposing multiple approaches to develop and implement a solution, be capable of supporting a spirit of teamwork, willingness to share knowledge, and collaborate with others.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or abilities required for this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Required Skills & Experience:

·      High School Diploma or equivalent required;

·      Experience with Terraform and Ansible

·      Experience with Git CI, Git CD, and Gitlab based pipelines.

·      Experience creating ground-up / immutable deployment Terraform or Ansible that creates and destroys instances

·      Demonstrated history of continuous learning and quickly picking up and applying new skills

·      Demonstrated ability to extract concepts from users regarding needed functionality, and to translate them into concepts and workflows

·      Experience with Continuous Integration Tools (e.g. GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, ADO, TFS, VSTS)

·      Demonstrated Experience of Cooperative Teamwork, preferably in an agile model

·      Must be able to adjust to constant business change, including new requirements, evolving goals and strategies, and emerging technologies.

·      Background in Linux & Windows Administration

·      Background in ESXi

·      Experience with Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers.

·      Security +, CISSP or other Security Certification meeting 8570 IAT Level 2 or 3 requirements

Preferred Skills and Experience

·      Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field preferred

·      Knowledge and experience administering application servers, web servers and databases (e.g., F5, Jetty, Tomcat, Websphere, Nginx, Apache, Postgres, etc.) preferred

·      Experience with deployments to Kubernetes clusters in a production environment preferred

·      Experience in vCF (ESXi, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Tanzu) preferred

·      Administration of identity and security technologies such as DNS, LDAP, SIEM preferred

·      Experience using Ansible on networking hardware and its VLANs along with Software Defined Network (SDN) Segments (e.g. NSX) preferred.

·      Experience with containerization and VMs

·      Experience with Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, Pivotal)