Sr. DevOps Engineer

Ideal-Innovations,-Inc.-1; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 108,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideal Innovations, Inc. in Bethesda, MD seeks a DevOps Engineer to support mission-critical systems, collaborating with development teams to maintain and enhance IC enterprise products in an Agile SAFe setting.

You will build and support enterprise DevOps environments, automate CI/CD, and manage AWS cloud deployments, monitoring, and operations, ensuring high availability across development, test, and production environments.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI-poly.
• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years or Master's with 6+ years; additional experience in lieu of degree considered.
• Demonstrated experience setting up and troubleshooting tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Katalon Studio.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Automation scripting

Agile SAFe experience

DevOps collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree +8 years or Master's +6 years

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Katalon Studio

Job description

• Pay or shift range: $107,900 USD to $165,792.50 USD
  Ideal Innovations, Inc. is committed to pay transparency. The salary range listed for this position represents our best estimate of the compensation we expect to offer at the time of extending an offer of employment. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors. We will not request or rely on salary history in our hiring process except as permitted by law.

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 Ansible, or Puppet.

Position Type Shift Information:

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.