DevOps Engineer

*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 subject matter expertise-level, 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 polygraph security clearance* * Education: Masters with 15 or more years of prior relevant work experience. Will consider additional work experience in lieu of a degree. * 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:* * Master's degree in science, technical, or engineering discipline. * 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* *.*