Principal / Sr. Principal DevOps Software Engineer
$114,000–$171,000 year
On-siteChantilly, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Design, develop, document, test, and debug software development environments and pipelines while building infrastructure to increase efficiency and maintainability. Build and maintain computer images for Linux and Windows, manage software repositories, and execute system builds and deployments on System Integration Labs. Support system design, testing, and building of upgraded capabilities including software and hardware integration and test. Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with engineers on planning and utilization of DevOps systems for testing or production. Troubleshoot issues, provide guidance for maintenance and upgrades, and recreate findings reported by operators to ensure 24/7/365 operational tempo. Coordinate with field service representatives, payload operators, subcontractors, and government customers for engineering and maintenance tasks.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent STEM related discipline
- US citizenship
- Active Secret clearance
- Willing and able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance
- Background in software DevOps for both software and hardware integration
- Experience with CI/CD best practices
- Automated builds and tests
- Quality gates
- Software quality
- CI tools
- Jenkins administration
- Pipeline development
- Network engineering
- TCP/IP
- VLAN
- Network protocols
- Knowledge and familiarity with using and building Windows Operating Systems
- Knowledge and familiarity with using and building Linux Operating Systems
- Demonstrated experience in documentation
- Process development
- Experience maintaining and administrating a Git version control system
- Knowledgeable with the development lifecycle
- V-model of the systems engineering process
- Strong interdisciplinary problem-solving skills
- Minimum of 5 years of experience (Bachelor's degree)
- Minimum of 3 years of experience (Masters degree)
- Minimum of 1 year of experience (PhD)
- Minimum of 7 years of experience (Associates degree)
- Minimum of 8 years of experience (Bachelor's degree)
- Minimum of 6 years of experience (Masters degree)
- Minimum of 4 years of experience (PhD)
- Able to work independently
- Identify solutions to complex problems
- Knowledge of system architecture
- Knowledge of SIGINT operations
Desired Qualifications
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance
- Experience with Software development
- Experience with Development Operations (DevOps)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Immutable OS
- System Administration
- Working with GitHub
- SonarQube administration
- Working with Sonatype Nexus
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Docker
- Familiarity with Rancher
- Experience with Data Analytics
- Setting up networks using routers
- Setting up networks using switches
- Setting up networks using firewalls
- Cabling physical networks
- Troubleshooting physical networks
- Troubleshooting virtual networks
- Writing scripts using Python
- Writing scripts using MATLAB
- Writing scripts using JavaScript
- Experience with Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) tool suite
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