Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer (U.S. Air Force)

Skylight; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Skylight, a digital consultancy for government agencies, seeks a DevOps engineer to collaborate with developers across the software life cycle, enabling fast, reliable releases for a U.S. Air Force civil engineering portfolio.

You will design and implement a delivery pipeline with built-in security scanning and test automation, moving applications toward a DoD software factory and outcome-driven delivery in close coordination with government personnel.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers across the software development life cycle to ensure code can be reliably released on demand with high quality.
• Build a delivery pipeline with security scanning and test automation built in from the start, not bolted on later.

Job description

United States

About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

About the job

At Skylight, DevOps engineers work with developers throughout the software development life cycle to ensure code can be reliably and repeatedly released on demand with a high degree of quality. They understand both software development and operations, with expertise in areas such as networking, security, test automation, and continuous integration/deployment.

Skylight is partnering with a U.S. Air Force program office that runs a portfolio of civil engineering systems. These systems serve users across civil engineering, security forces, and services, including readiness managers, range personnel, and fire and emergency services. Releases are slow today. Regression testing is manual, security review happens after development finishes, and code freeze to production can take a month or more. We’ll move the program to an outcome-driven model with test automation and security built into the pipeline, starting with migrating the first application onto a DoD software factory. Leadership wants this office to become the model other Air Force offices adopt.

In this role, you’ll build the delivery pipeline that makes faster, safer releases possible, with security scanning and test automation built in from the start rather than bolted on at the end.

What to know going in

Your first 30 days are about working with the Skylight team and government personnel, learning how