DevOps Engineer

Brandes Associates, Inc.; California (MD); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Brandes Associates, Inc. is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer located in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. The ideal candidate will have at least eight years of experience in DevOps practices, managing software configurations, and maintaining system performance and security. They must possess a Bachelor's degree and an active Top Secret clearance.

This role requires some telework flexibility and involves on-call responsibilities for emergency support.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight (8) years of DevOps experience required.
• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience substitutes are acceptable.
• Active Top Secret clearance is a must for this position.

Responsibilities

• Manage and configure software for applications.
• Ensure system security and performance levels.
• Provide 24/7 emergency call-in support as needed.

Skills

Linux

AWS

Docker

Terraform scripting

Ansible scripting

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university

Tools

Docker Swarm

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

DevOps Engineer

Job Locations: US-MD

Location: 135 National Business Parkway, Annapolis Junction, MD, with up to 1 day per week of telework.

Salary: The typical annual salary range for this position is $160,000 to $200,000 USD.

Responsibilities

• Have at least eight (8) years of experience in DevOps development/engineering such as installing and configuring software; managing servers, networks, technology tools; monitoring and maintaining systems for required levels of security, performance, and accreditation; and troubleshooting issues and outages.
• Have at least eight (8) years of experience in DevOps technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ELK.
• Have at least eight (8) years of experience in scripting such as Terraform, Ansible.
• Familiarity with developing DevOps for Microsoft Windows or UNIX/Linux/Centos family of operating systems.
• Understand technical writing and have familiarity with technical documents in support of a software development project.
• Efforts will focus on DevOps engineering of a modernization effort to converge NSA's authoring, dissemination, and other supporting tools.
• Deploy applications; install and configure complex software; manage network servers and technology tools; monitor and maintain the system for required levels of performance; and troubleshoot issues and outages.
• Candidates will be required to work a rotating pager schedule for emergency 24/7 call-in support as required (roughly one week out of every 4‑6 weeks).
• Staff may charge four additional hours for the week they are on call in addition to hours worked.
• Work location is a combination of 135 National Business Parkway, Annapolis Junction, MD and up to 1 day per week of telework as project tasking allows.

Qualifications

Required technical skills:

• Linux
• AWS, MASH, and VMs
• Docker Swarm
• Deployments of distributed web applications (e.g., GitLab CI/CD)
• Terraform scripting and VM provisioning
• Ansible scripting and development
• Thorough understanding of Docker & Docker Compose container technology
• Git
• Minimum eight (8) years of DevOps experience

Clearance Level: Top Secret. Applicants must have an active Top Secret clearance. Polygraph must be completed within the last seven years. We cannot accept CCA candidates for this position.

Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. Allowable substitutions: four (4) years of DevOps experience for a Bachelor's degree; two (2) years for a Master's degree.

Citizenship: US citizenship required at the time of application.

BAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other non‑merit based factors made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

Desired Technical Skills

• Python scripting and development
• NiFi maintenance and configuration
• Elasticsearch maintenance and configuration
• Java / Spring Boot (troubleshooting error logs)
• HAProxy
• MongoDB
• Front End User Interface (UI) Development, Middle‑Tier Development, Back‑End Development, Full Stack Development, Agile Software Development Practices, Application Programming Interface (API) principles, Artificial Intelligence, Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), Automated Testing, Cloud Analytics, Cloud‑based System Administration, Containerization, Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD), Data Modeling, DevOps, Distributed Web Applications, Firewall Administration, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Kanban Software Development Practices, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Microservices, Monitoring and Alerting, Network Engineering, Recommender Services, Relational Databases, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Scripting, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Systems Engineering, Technical Documentation, User Accessibility, Virtual Machines, Web Services
• Commercial Technologies: Accumulo, ActiveMQ, Akka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular, Ansible, Apache, Apache NiFi, Apollo, Artemis, ASP.NET, Atlassian, Backbone.js, Bash scripting, Bootstrap, Cassandra, CentOS, CoffeeScript, CSS, Cypress, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Drools, Eclipse, Elasticsearch, ExtJS, Flink, Git, Gitlab, Gradle, Grafana, GWT, Hadoop, HAProxy, Hazelcast, Heron, Hibernate, HTML, IDE, Firebug, Java, JavaScript, JBlocks, Jenkins, Jetty, Jira/Confluence, JMS, jQuery, JSON, Kafka, KeyDB, Kibana, Kubernetes, Linux, Logstash, Maven, MongoDB, MySQL, nginx, Node.js, OpenSSL, Oracle, PKI Certificate Administration, Percona, Postgres, Prometheus, Pulsar, Puppet, Python, Rancher, React.js, Redis, RESTful Web Services, SaltStack, Scala, Selenium, SOAP Web Services, Splunk, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring MVC/Beans, SQL, Squirrel, Storm, Subversion, Swagger, Sybase, Terraform, Terragrunt, Tomcat, Typescript, Vue.js, Web Security, XML, Zookeeper