DevOps Engineer

By Light Professional IT Services; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage

401(k) Matching

Generous Leave Policy

Job summary

By Light Professional IT Services in Orlando, Florida seeks a DevOps Engineer to automate DevOps processes and enhance deployment of cybersecurity applications. Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and relevant DevOps certifications.

The role involves developing and maintaining scripts, supporting CI-CD pipelines, and collaborating with software development teams. Employees enjoy comprehensive benefits including medical coverage, 401(k) matching, and generous leave policies.

Qualifications

• IAT Level II or greater. Security+, CISSP or similar certification within six months.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to analyze real-world problems and implement solutions.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and maintain DevOps processes and tools.
• Automate application deployments and manage containerized assets.
• Support implementation of a fully automated CI-CD pipeline.

Skills

Scripting languages for automation

DevOps tools and processes

Interpersonal and communication skills

Problem-solving in software and hardware

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Tools

Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA)

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Position Overview

Research, develop, implement, and maintain DevOps processes and tools to automate the integration and deployment of complex DoD cybersecurity software applications. Maintain deployment of multiple software baselines with custom Virtual Machine (VM) and container configurations development, testing, and deployment activities. Ensure the DevOps environment facilitates designing, implementing, deploying, and executing automated tests, and investigating new technologies to continually improve DevOps processes. Collect, process, and present build, network, security, performance, and other information and metrics to show automation improvements or degradations over time. Balance hybrid cloud distribution between private corporate infrastructure and public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Perform many duties involving DevOps functions including authoring and maintaining automation deployment and monitoring scripts, researching, implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI‑CD) tools and processes, automating application deployments, managing virtualized and containerized assets, creating virtual and physical network configurations, servers, communications, and test and developer engineering support.
• Author and maintain scripts in a variety of languages. Work products must be configuration managed.
• Analyze real‑world problems and implement solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, DoD DevOps guidance, and industry best practices.
• Assure system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
• Support the implementation and operation of a fully automated CI‑CD pipeline that leverages enterprise container and virtualization platforms.
• Monitor, maintain, install, and support networked virtual machines, containers and software applications.
• Assist software developers, integration, and test engineers to best utilize DevOps capabilities.
• Troubleshoot capabilities to diagnose system problems.
• Utilize an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology from an accredited college or university.
• IAT Level II or greater. Security+, CISSP or other equivalent certification within six months of date of hire.
• Security+ certification required within six months of date of hire.
• Understanding of commercial DevOps tools and processes.
• Use scripting languages for automation, administration, data collection and reporting. This job requires the ability to write, test, debug, deploy, and sustain scripts.
• Configuration manage, version control, and backup various scripts and work products created to execute and maintain the environment.
• Prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
• Lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills.
• Professionally convey system‑wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Train others to perform similar DevOps and automation tasks. Support a corporate library of knowledge by maintaining and evangelizing content.
• Interact with developers to understand software changes that will impact development and testing activities, examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements.
• Solving technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

• Three years of work experience preferred.
• Additional certifications a definite plus or working towards a certification(s).
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA, etc.), Jenkins Pipelines, Puppet, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Harbor, Kustomize.
• Experience with private and hybrid cloud design/operation/monitoring/deployment:
  • VMware vCenter and ESXi, generally maintained at the most current version.
  • Knowledge of or ability to learn Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Knowledge of or ability to learn OpenShift.
  • Knowledge of or ability to learn Ansible to automate deployment and destruction of virtual machine, network, and other virtualized assets in VMware environments.
• Ability to design and implement self‑service portals for conducting DevOps or IT related activities.
• Prior or current experience with Agile development processes.

Special Requirements / Security Clearance

Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U. S. Citizenship status and a SECRET security clearance, with an ability to obtain a TOP SECRET security clearance. Security Clearance requirements will be specified in the Government's Task Order.

Benefits Overview

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Wellness Program
• 401(k) Matching
• Disability (Short Term & Long Term)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Education & Training
• Generous Leave Policy (11 Federal Holidays, PTO, Military Leave, Bereavement and Jury Duty)

CESI is committed to principles of inclusion and equal employment opportunity. We foster a non‑discriminatory, professional work environment for all our teams. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status.