DevOps Engineer - NextGen Federal Systems : Job Details

NextGen Federal Systems is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to be part of a team building a software factory for a DoD customer.

Location: Hybrid support to APG, MD. Requires monthly/quarterly support for test events.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a DevOps toolchain platform for a DOD mission critical program
• Provide expertise to the platform's tenants for CI/CD pipeline implementations
• Work with tech leads and architects to contribute to solutions and on-site implementation requirements
• Collaborate with government stakeholders and across other program DevOps teams
• Provide inputs to the technical solutions team
• Track delivery assignments and follow up on direction, action items, questions, and documentation

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and detail-oriented
• Strong research and analytical skills
• A secret clearance is required
• Experience developing a DevOps platform including scripting to deploy applications, as well as evaluating and integrating new platform tools
• Agile software development, CI/CD pipeline experience
• 4+ years of operations experience working with cross functional teams
• 2+ years of DevOps implementation experience
• Experience with containers and container security
• Ansible, Python, or Terraform scripting experience
• Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and strong customer-facing skills
• Minimum DOD 8570 IAT Level II Security+ Certification
• Active DoD Secret security clearance or higher

Desired Skills

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in information technology, software engineer, or relevant technical field
• Firm understanding of SDLC (systems development lifecycle)
• Experience deploying RKE2 to an on-prem infrastructure ideally with Terraform
• Familiarity with Kubernetes implementations
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Python
• Helm charts, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Bash, or YAML
• Systems administration experience

About NextGen: NextGen Federal Systems is an innovative technology and professional services provider specializing in advanced software solutions and comprehensive mission and business support services. We work in close collaboration with our Customers to truly understand their business and mission goals. Our approach is to design, build, implement, and manage solutions that measurably improve our client's organizational performance. We have established and foster a corporate culture where we:

• Treat employees with fairness and respect regardless of their position, sexual identity, race, or tenure.
• Communicate the importance of our mission and our employees' contributions to it, ensuring they understand how their job role contributes to the greater good.
• Openly promote and communicate our ideas for change and adaptability.
• Strive to achieve results as an organization.
• Hold employees accountable to their commitments and provide incentives that encourage positive and productive behaviors.
• Value the talents and contributions of our employees as the key factor for our success.
• Create an environment where people can engage at all levels.
• Encourage people to take risks and allow them to make mistakes.
• Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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