Description
The U.S. Navy's Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Jr. Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program. This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.
Position Summary: This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure such as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.
- Automate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure.
- Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities.
- Develop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks.
- Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies.
- Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule.
- Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies.
- Develop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes.
- Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced.
Required Qualifications:
- BS degree and 2 – 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience.
- 1-2 years of hands-on site engineering automation.
- Currently possess an IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP).
- Must possess an active DoD secret security clearance.
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Ansible knowledge and experience with windows necessary.
- Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills.
- Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.).
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
- Basic understanding Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations.
- Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.
- ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience.
Pay Range: $69,550.00 - $125,725.00