DevOps Engineer, Senior - Navstar

OpenTalent; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Navstar is seeking a Senior DevOps professional with an active TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to lead architecture improvements and a small DevOps team in a mission-focused IT environment in Chantilly, VA. The role requires oversight of CI/CD pipelines, system hardening, and robust operational practices across development, testing, and production environments.

The ideal candidate has 9+ years of related experience, a Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering, and strong skills in Kubernetes,

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph is required.
• Senior role typically requires 9+ years of related experience; degree as stated.

Responsibilities

• Finds deficiencies in delivery lifecycle and architecture and implements best practices.
• Oversees hiring of a small DevOps team for operation and maintenance of products.
• Patches and upgrades existing products for reliability in customer environments.
• Maintains development, testing, and production environments.
• Manages CI/CD pipelines to maximize efficiency.
• Implements system hardening and configuration management practices.
• Develops and maintains operational, backup, DR, and monitoring solutions.
• Tests system integrity and deployments; makes improvements as needed.
• Manages code deployments, fixes, and related processes.
• Works with CI/CD tools and Git for source control.
• Provides technical support and develops software for back-end systems.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

Grafana

Job description

Would you like to perform rewarding work while contributing to the success of an established, growing company? Navstar is an award-winning organization that has a proven track record of successfully providing IT services and solutions both as a prime and sub-contractor on mission-focused IT programs. Our employees are integral players in support of mission-critical programs focused on our National Security.

Role Description:

• Under general direction, finds deficiencies with our product delivery lifecycle and architecture and implement industry best practices to improve them.
• Oversees and offers input over hiring of a small DevOps team to assist the operation and maintenance of our products.
• Inspects, patches, and upgrades our existing product(s) so that they can more reliably deliver to customer environments.
• Maintains development, testing, and production environments.
• Manages continuous integration and delivery pipelines to maximize efficiency.
• Implements industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
• Develops and maintains solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
• Tests system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed.
• Manages code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
• Works with CI/CD tools, and source control (git)
• Offers technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.

Stays current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• To be eligible for this position you must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

SENIOR: Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and nine years of related experience.

• Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
• Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
• Understanding of user access practices and security controls within a system.
• Understanding of system administration in various OS environments.
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
• Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Able to work on-call hours as required.

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• Understanding of AWS services and cloud management.
• Experience maintaining existing production kubernetes installations.