Sr. DevOps Engineer

Ideal Innovations Incorporated; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideal Innovations, Inc. in Bethesda, MD, seeks a DevOps Engineer to support mission‑critical systems and enterprise products across legacy and new solutions.

You will collaborate with development teams and stakeholders to maintain, build and support IC enterprise products in an Agile SAFe setting. You will drive automation, CI/CD practices, and AWS cloud operations, developing scripts and tools to streamline deployments and operations while ensuring high availability and reliability across

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with CI poly is required.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years, or Master’s with 6+ years; substitutions allowed.
• Experience with DevOps tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Katalon Studio.
• Experience supporting developers and software teams in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Supports software deployments and cloud infrastructure baselines.
• Manage and maintain DevOps components and tools.
• Define enterprise CI/CD processes and best practices.
• Codify DevOps best practices across the enterprise.
• Develop scripts to automate tool deployment to AWS and other tasks.
• Maintain build environments.
• Work with project teams to integrate products into the DevOps environment.

Skills

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Katalon Studio

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Highlights:

• Support mission-critical systems and enterprise products, working closely with development teams and technology stakeholders across both legacy and new solutions.
• Build and support enterprise DevOps environments, managing the components, tools, and infrastructure that enable reliable development and production operations.
• Drive automation and CI/CD practices, developing scripts, streamlining operational processes, and defining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment best practices.
• Work hands-on in AWS cloud environments, supporting cloud infrastructure baselines, software deployments, build environments, monitoring, and operational availability.
• Collaborate across the development lifecycle, integrating products into the DevOps environment and troubleshooting issues across development, test, and production environments within an Agile SAFe setting.

Typical Day:

This DevOps Engineer role provides mission critical system support to our customer. You will closely work with the Development team as well as other technology stakeholders to maintain, develop and support IC enterprise products - legacy and new products - in an Agile SAFe environment. The role will also work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate systems. Additionally, this role will help automate and streamline operations and processes; as well as build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments.

Tasks:

• Supports software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.
• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment.
• Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices.
• Codifying DevOps best practices across the enterprise.
• Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks.
• Scripting and maintaining build environments.
• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment.

Required Qualifications:

• To be considered, must have an active TS/SCI with at least a CI-poly.
• Education: Bachelors degree with 8 or more years of prior relevant work experience or Masters with 6 or more years of prior relevant work experience. Will consider additional work experience in lieu of a degree.
• The ideal candidate will possess:
  • Demonstrated experience setting up one or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
  • Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues with two or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
  • Demonstrated experience working within a software development team and supporting developers and developer activities.

Desired Qualifications:

• AWS Associate Certification (Developer, Solution Architect, or Sys Ops Administrator)
• AWS Professional Certification (DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)
• Demonstrated experience in container orchestration using Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS/ECR
• Demonstrated experience with Languages including Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Unix shell Scripting
• Demonstrated experience with Ansible, or Puppet.

Position Type Shift Information:

• Mon-Fri, 40 hr work week

Citizenship & Clearance:

US Citizenship and TS/SCI with a Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP) Required

Location: Onsite- Bethesda, MD

Ideal Innovations, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

Ideal Innovations, Inc. is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Education

Masters (preferred)

Bachelors (preferred)

Experience

8 years: Prior relevant work experience (required)

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