Principal Linux DevOps Analyst

Mission Support and Test Services; North Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 119,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Pension plan

401(k)

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) is seeking an experienced Linux DevOps Analyst to support PULSE at NNSS. You will install, operate, and maintain controls and communications systems for high-hazard experiments, collaborating with LANL, LLNL, and SNL as needed.

The role requires strong Python/C++ skills, DevOps practices, and a willingness to travel. The position offers 4/10 work schedule, security clearance process, and work at NNSS forward areas with occasional travel to national labs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field or equivalent experience with at least 8 years of relevant, progressively responsible experience.
• Advanced knowledge of software development or database administration principles, standards, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to lead complex projects with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Demonstrated aptitude to learn new tools and evaluate solutions for problems.
• Experience with NNSS tools and a broad range of programming languages (Python, C/C++, etc.).
• Familiarity with OT Systems, EPICS, GitLab, and containerized AI/ML workloads.

Responsibilities

• Support engineers and scientists with installation, operation, and maintenance of controls and communications systems for subcritical experiments at PULSE facility.
• Develop standards and procedures for NNSS IT and Cyber interfaces with accelerator control networks.
• Define software requirements and guide design, implementation, and testing.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot RHEL servers, DevOps platforms, and container orchestration.
• Develop GitLab CI/CD pipelines for DevOps and AI/ML workflows.
• Coordinate with multiple labs and ensure secure, air-gapped environments.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Linux

DevOps

GitLab

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

EPICS

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer-related field

Tools

GitLab

Podman

Tril-Lab OS Stack

Container orchestration

Job description

Job Description

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy. Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.

• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

Responsiblities

MSTS is seeking an experienced Linux DevOps Analyst (Principal Applications Analyst) to support engineers and scientists with the installation, operation, and maintenance of controls and communications systems associated with pulsed power machines designed to interrogate explosively driven physics packages on subcritical experiments (SCEs) at the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experiments (PULSE) facility. This position is based in Nevada but requires occasional travel to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LANL), and Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) prior to the accelerator arriving in North Las Vegas for integration testing and final installation and operation at the PULSE facility located at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of standards, practices, and procedures that impacts how the Scorpius accelerator control system communications network interfaces with NNSS’s IT and Cyber systems.

• Participate in defining software requirements for development, maintenance, and improvements by responding to questions concerning software design and implementation.

• Take ownership of technical problems and sees them through to resolution.

• Guide programmers and analysts in systems analysis, development, or maintenance techniques; selection of design alternatives; performance analysis; and programming techniques.

• Coordinate, develop, implement plans for installation, testing, and maintenance.

• Prepare time and cost estimates and schedule for software development, maintenance, and modification tasks.

• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot RHEL Linux servers/workstations including automated OS imaging.

• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot DevOps and software supply chain platforms.

• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot container orchestration platforms.

• Incorporate DevSecOps cybersecurity best practices.

• System architecture and documentation.

• Develop GitLab CI/CD pipelines for DevOps and AI/ML workflows.

• Liaison between IT & Cybersecurity.

• Collaborate with other National Laboratories and incorporate their technology stacks which may differ from internal standards.

• Install, configure, maintain and troubleshoot Tril-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS), a Linux distribution based on RHEL created for high performance HPC clusters for laboratories within the National Nuclear Security Administration, allowing multiple smaller systems to emulate a high-performance computing (HPD) platform.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer related field or equivalent computer-related experience with at least 8 years of relevant, progressively responsible experience.

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of technical principles, theories, standards, practices and procedures in software development or database administration.

• Ability to lead complex projects that may involve collaboration with multiple IT sections, other departments, consultants, as well as outside business units.

• Must be willing to accept responsibility in new areas and possess the level of technical and analytical skills that will provide successful outcomes to those assignments.

• Must have expert experience in broad range of tools and technology used by NNSS.

• Must have the aptitude and desire to continually learn about new tools and technology and have the ability to evaluate the best solution for stated problems.

• Experience handling dependencies in a secure/air-gapped environment.

• Familiarity with mainstream programming languages (Python, C/C++, etc.) and building/compiling code from source.

• Familiarity with OT Systems.

• Familiarity with Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS).

• Familiarity with GitLab, JFrog, Ansible, Satellite, Podman.

• Building and running AI, ML, and data science workloads with containers

• Familiarity with GPU Clusters.

• The primary work location will be in the forward areas at the Nevada National Security Site (forward areas are approximately 90 miles from North Las Vegas) with some work occasionally performed at the Losee Road facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The PULSE facility is located in the forward areas of the NNSS.

• Work schedule for this position will be 4/10’s, Monday – Thursday (subject to change).

• Limited travel is required.

• Pre-placement physical examination, which includes a drug screen, is required. MSTS maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.

• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

MSTS is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants offered employment with MSTS are also subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment. In addition, Applicants for employment must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship, at least 18 years of age. Reference DOE Order 472.2 (https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-series/0472.2-BOrder-chg1-pgchg) , “Personnel Security”. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Department of Energy Q Clearance

Reviews and tests for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR Part 707.4 (http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=14b1c770db022992d237769fbe9fc519&mc=true&node=se10.4.707_14&rgn=div8) , “Workplace Substance Abuse Programs at DOE Sites,” will be conducted. Applicant selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation, required to participate in subsequent reinvestigations, and must meet the eligibility requirements for access to classified matter. Successful completion of a counterintelligence evaluation, which may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination, may also be required. Reference 10 CFR Part 709 (http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title10/10cfr709_main_02.tpl) , “Counterintelligence Evaluation Program.”

MSTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. MSTS is a background screening, drug-free workplace.

Annual salary range for this position is: $118,560.00 - $180,814.40

Starting salary is determined based on the position market value, the individual candidate education and experience and internal equity.