Mission-Driven DevOps Engineer — CI/CD & Hybrid Cloud

By Light Professional IT Services; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage

Wellness Program

401(k) Matching

Disability (Short Term & Long Term)

Life Insurance

Education & Training

Generous Leave Policy

Job summary

By Light Professional IT Services is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for DoD and federal clients. You will work on containerized and VM-based deployments across hybrid cloud environments.

The role requires scripting, infrastructure as code, and collaboration with software developers and test teams. Security+ is required within 6 months; incumbents must hold IAT Level II or higher.

Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology from an accredited college or university.
• Three years of work experience preferred.
• Security+ required within 6 months of date of hire.
• IAT Level II or greater. Security+, CISSP or other equivalent certification within six months of date of hire.
• Knowledge of 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.

Responsibilities

• Analyze real world problems and implement solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, DoD DevOps guidance, and industry best practices.
• Assures 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
• Trouble-shoot capabilities to diagnose system problems;
• Utilize an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work
• Lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
• 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.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Education

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

Tools

Jenkins Pipelines

Puppet

JFrog Artifactory

Git

Harbor

Kustomize

Confluence

Jira

OpenShift

Ansible

VMware vCenter

Job description

By Light Professional IT Services is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for DoD and federal clients. You will work on containerized and VM-based deployments across hybrid cloud environments.

The role requires scripting, infrastructure as code, and collaboration with software developers and test teams. Security+ is required within 6 months; incumbents must hold IAT Level II or higher.