Senior DevOps Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Agile Software Development, Automation, DevOps

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

We’re seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Scientific Modeling, Application, Visualization, Computational Science, Software, and Statistical Support (SMAVCS4) Team to support the Environmental Protection Agency.  Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), a scientific organization working to support Agency decisions by providing solutions-driven research to rapidly evaluate the potential human health and environmental risks due to exposures to environmental chemicals and ensure the integrity of the freshwater environment and its capacity to support human well-being. 

The Senior DevOps Engineer will support application servers (RHEL) with updates, user permissions, web application configuration management, and log management. They will also participate in Agile ritual meetings and thrive in an autonomous environment surrounded by unsolved problems.  This position supports CI/CD for applications that are developed in-house that are both public and intranet-facing. It will also assist in support of the follow COTS applications: Jenkins, Portainer, Slack, Atlassian Bitbucket, Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana, Docker, Apache, HAProxy, Ansible, Docker Registry, SonaType Nexus, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats.

If you'd like the opportunity to work in a challenging and rewarding environment for a team that's supporting an important mission and a company that always puts you first and foremost, then we'd love to hear from you!

 

Responsibilities:

• Assisting development teams in deployments
• Troubleshooting delivery failures and application outages
• Modification of current CI pipelines (adding or changing environmental variables, testing steps, or build steps, etc)
• Documentation of current processes and updating documentation with process changes
• Automating processes to reduce time to deployment or increase efficiency
• Analysis of problem areas via logs and monitoring metrics to improve server and application performance

Requirements:

• Education: BA/BS or equivalent in related field
• Experience: 5+ years of related experience required; 6+ years of related experience preferred
• The ideal candidate will 5+ years of experience as a web developer, with 3+ years experience in an Agile development framework such as Scrum or Kanban and 3+ years experience with source code version control management, code merging, and Git Flow
• The ideal candidate may also have 5+ years of experience as a Linux administrator, with 3+ years experience with Linux administration skills using technologies for web applications such as Apache, Nginx, and/or HAProxy.
• DevOps CICD Tool Experience: Jenkins / Bamboo / Github actions for complete automation implementation (experience at some level) with some playbooks (Ansible ) or other. Ability to implement through Source Code (IaC – Infrastructure as Code) to automate the initial CICD pipelines, ideally as replicated services
• Docker containers with some orchestration: Docker Swarm and/or Kubernetes. Also, Overall DevOps orchestration tool like Portainer
• DevOps Monitoring software: ELK or Prometheus – utilization of these tools to troubleshoot container deployment errors
• Knowledge of Git source code and how to use

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Linux configuration management tools using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar technologies
• Experience with cloud technologies AWS or Azure
• Experience with Bash Scripting, Java, Python, Groovy, and/or Ruby
• Experience with centralized application logging management tools such as Elastic stack, Graylog, Fluentd or similar technologies
• Experience with automated testing integration
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
• Experience with open source tools. In most cases there is not a support mechanism in place accept for reading the documentation
• Experience with CI/CD platform such as Jenkins or GitLab or GitHub CICD
• Experience with containerized technologies such as Docker
• Experience with Source code processing (Git) with basic operations such as comparing deltas in code | checkin check out | proper Merging and Pull Requests. Especially needed for IaC (Infrastructure as Code) in DevOPs
• Related certification(s) sure as RCSA, Docker Certified Associate, or similar

 

Required Soft Skills/Organizational Skills Qualifications:

• Ability to prioritize and complete a wide variety of tasking workloads with critical deadlines
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Superior communications skills, and a demonstrated ability to maintain a patient and professional demeanor, with a can-do attitude
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and professionally to both technical and non-technical parties (who may be key stakeholders)
• Ability to manage equipment and services in remote locations
• Ability to work effectively in a remote team environment
• Workability to perform well under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to maintain an organized workflow, with a high degree of attention to detail

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Security Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain EPA Public Trust Level 4
• US Citizenship required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

The likely salary range for this position is $97,968 - $131,100. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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