Description
We are seeking a talented Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience to join our dynamic Agile software teams in Omaha, Nebraska.
As a leader, you will guide the definition, implementation, and delivery of programs focused on modernizing a variety of software systems. You’ll leverage your skills to provide expertise in infrastructure provisioning and configuration and software deployment across the software development lifecycle.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage infrastructure via code, designing reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly-available, secure architectures for container-based and non-container-based applications.
- Assist in providing input and expertise to senior engineers to maintain alignments with best practices and recommending system improvements while overseeing the automated deployment, roll-back, and monitoring of applications into software development, test, and production environment.
- Mentor fellow DevOps Engineers as needed.
- Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker/Podman, and Ansible.
- Apply DevOps expertise to ensure congruence of the various infrastructure, software, configurations and interfaces maintained under configuration control.
- Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums; communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure, and system issues.
- Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks.
Basic Qualifications:
- US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience.
- Knowledge and understanding of DevOps trends and technologies.
- Working knowledge of Git and experience with development workflows in GitLab, Bitbucket or an equivalent tool.
- Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent tools.
- Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience with Kubernetes application deployment/management tools such as Helm or Kustomize.
- Full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
- Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies.
- Experience integrating code review systems into the SCM process.
- Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS.).
- Experience working with Agile software development teams and implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
- Excellent problem solving and analysis skills, including the ability to logically create structure and order from unstructured inputs.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- US Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or higher.
- Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards and updating applications and code to meet security scans and security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs).
- Experience with GitOps concepts and related tools, such as Argo CD.
- Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (Azure is a plus).
- Experience with static code analysis, particularly security scans.
- Experience designing and building automated software testing pipelines using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools.
- Kubernetes certification such as CKA or CKAD.
- Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar.
- ITIL v3 Foundations Certification.
Pay Range: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00