812252 Systems Engineer $300,000.00

B4Corp; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 270,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Vanguard 401k

Phantom stock

Medical – United Health Care

Dental – United Concordia

Vision – VSP

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

Employee referral bonus

PTO seven weeks

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

B4Corp in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Systems Engineer (DevOps Lead) to shape and implement DevOps strategy for mission-critical systems. You will coordinate product development with operations, build automated secure delivery pipelines, and drive high-quality releases for government customers.

Responsibilities include selecting and integrating DevOps tools, promoting best practices, monitoring performance, and ensuring maximum uptime in production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• Minimum ten years in an operational environment with development and client support of large-scale enterprise applications.
• Minimum five years experience with Agile software development.
• Minimum eight years IT experience with at least five years DevOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and integration of DevOps tools for deployment, monitoring and operations of mission systems software products.
• Coordinate with application teams to adopt continuous build, inspection, testing, and deployment approaches.
• Promote industry-standard DevOps engineering practices and drive automation to maximize uptime.
• Provide KPI metrics and analysis to track software delivery efficiency across teams.
• Work under supervision while guiding cross-functional teams through changes.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Agile software development

Cross-functional teamwork

Problem solving

System integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, or related technical field

Master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field

Tools

Jira

Maven

Jenkins

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

GitHub

Bitbucket

Docker

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Job description

Details

Labor Category: Systems Engineer

Labor Category: Systems Engineer

Position Title: Systems Engineer

Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert

Salary: Up to $300,000.00 per year

Core Hours: 9am to 4pm

Location: Bethesda MD

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

The Systems Engineer is responsible for shaping the organization’s DevOps strategy and implementation. The DevOps lead will coordinating the efforts of product development teams with that of operations teams to streamline the development process and build and evolve an automated, secure, and scalable continuous delivery pipeline with high-quality, innovative product releases to mission customers. Responsibilities include leading the design and integration of DevOps tools and technologies for deployment, monitoring, and operations of mission systems software products; working with application teams to help them adopt continuous build, inspection, testing, and deployment approaches; participating in all aspects of DevOps Engineering and promoting industry standard methodologies in DevOps Engineering; helping to configure and monitor DevOps performance; and ensuring maximum uptime and optimal performance for mission customers in the Production environment.

• It is required that the DevOps Lead has the following qualifications:
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, or related technical field.
• A minimum of ten years of experience working in an operational environment responsible for the development, O&M, as well as client support of large scale enterprise applications.
• A minimum of five years of experience utilizing Agile software development methods.
• A minimum of eight years of IT experience including at least five years of software-related DevOps experience.
• It is desired that the DevOps Lead has the following qualifications:
• Experience with various DevOps tools (e.g., Jira, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, GitHub, BitBucket, Docker, etc.).
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience building software or solutions using PHP, Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, or similar programming languages and technology stacks.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Experience solving difficult/complex problems and leading people through change.
• Experience utilizing testing practices and frameworks including automated testing suites, unit testing, and end-to-end and user-acceptance testing.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)-Certified Solutions Architect or Developer, Associate or preferably Professional level.

Details

Labor Category: Systems Engineer

Position Title: Systems Engineer

Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert

Salary: Up to $300,000.00 per year

Core Hours: 9am to 4pm

Location: Bethesda MD

Mandatory Requirements

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)

This role requires an experienced Agile Scrum Master to work in a Government IC environment. This role performs project management tasks to coordinate and prioritize user stories for implementation by team members. This role provides Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and metrics generation and analysis in order to track overall efficiency of software delivery across team. Finally, this role facilitates horizontal communication across team member to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans as needed.

Primary Responsibilities

• This role is responsible for technical planning, system hardware-software-network design, development and integration, verification and validation, and fielding.
• Evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems.
• Duties include performing systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and quality assurance.
• Applies fundamental concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments. Performs work that requires practical experience and training.
• Work is performed under supervision.

Optional Requirements

• Master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or other related technical field or Bachelor’s degree in a business or management-related field accompanied by experience managing technical requirements in complex programs.
• Experience displaying expert domain knowledge in a technical field.
• Experience negotiating complex scenarios and challenges and devising courses of action to resolve situations with predictable outcomes.
• Experience leading critical objectives where decision making is of utmost concern to the outcome.
• Experience Supervising Others.
• Candidate must have BS with 15+ year prior relevant experience or Masters with 13+ years prior relevant experience.

B4Corp Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

B4Corp is an EEO and e-Verify employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin. Please take the time to review and complete these three voluntary identification forms if you choose to do so.