Senior DevOps Engineer

VTG; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vosper Thornycroft Group in Chantilly, VA is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and implement automation across development, test, and production environments. You will leverage cloud platforms and DevOps tools to deliver scalable, reliable software solutions and support the full software lifecycle.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and program management, break down work into actionable tasks, and drive best practices in CI/CD, testing, and deployment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• BS degree with extensive DevOps experience; higher degrees optional.
• Expertise across SDLC, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter.
• Proficiency in cloud development on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.

Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement.
• Solve high-level technical problems and design automated solutions.
• Develop, prototype and deploy automation for development, test and production.
• Break down high-level requirements into implementable tasks.
• Recommend improvements to processes, programs and automation.
• Coordinate with Product Owners and Scrum Masters for user story alignment.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud deployment

Automation

Excellent communication

Agile practices

Education

BS degree

Master's degree

Doctorate

Tools

Git

Jenkins

JMeter

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Oracle Cloud

Unix Bash scripting

Job description

Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.

What will you do?

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
• Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
• Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
• Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs
• Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting
• Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures
• Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures
• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Do you have what it takes?

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Candidate must have BS degree and 11-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. Will consider work experience in lieu of degree.
• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development
• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter
• Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Well versed with using version control systems such as git
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
• Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices
• Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
• Interested and eager to learn