Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Location: Sterling, VA
Terms: Full-Time/Permanent
Security Clearance: Active DoD Top Secret TS/SCI w/CI Poly Clearance
We
are looking for a Sr. Systems Engineer experienced in configuring, deploying,
and maintaining IBM’s Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM) tool suite (and
associated tools/DB) as Application as Code (AaC) to join our visible technical program driving the
Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) cloud platform that supports
collection, management and analysis of digital engineering information in an
architecture that provides seamless digital thread and enables tool
interoperability, including data structures suitable for AI applications. The program
delivers engineering services for Linux and Windows cloud-based infrastructure
as well as sophisticated enterprise computing infrastructure including
end-point devices, Cloud services, virtualized applications, and storage
systems. Enterprise Computing Engineering services include modern application
technology including containerized solutions with orchestrated workflows. Our
platform uses a mix of Open Source, Government-off-the-Shelf (GOTS) and Commercial
off-the-Shelf (COTS) software and targets cloud-native constructs. The
environment offers a secure-by-default configuration, implementing an
Infrastructure-as-Code approach, and governance policies. We value fast
iteration and a customer-oriented approach while being mindful about security. This
is a fast paced, challenging, and career rewarding experience to recruit and
develop top talent and solutions on one of the most complex and high-profile
programs within the government customer community.
Responsibilities:
- Provide
IT technical services and technical expertise in systems, technical
infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other technical areas
- Configure, deploy
and maintain IBM Enterprise Lifecycle Management (as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based
environment)
- Work with internal engineering resources as
well as customer end-users to design and enhance the user interfaces for
supported applications, maintaining responsive designs that accommodate
challenging technical and functional requirements
- Create
and maintain comprehensive test plans
- Support operations functions,
including root cause identification, remediation and documentation (e.g.,
user guides, ‘how to’ guides, infrastructure diagrams)
- Work
closely with clients and cross-functional departments on technical issues
including software system troubleshooting and maintenance and to communicate
project statuses
- Monitor
system performance
- Test
new features, services and fix bugs
- Configure
and deploy applications as code in CI/CD pipeline using DevSecOps tools to
include Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, IdAM, Active Directory, LDAP
resources
- Prepare
technical presentations for government and senior leadership
- Work effectively in a team
environment
- Work across infrastructure
that contains both Linux (60%) and Windows (40%)
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical, management
and customer both written and verbally
- Utilize robust troubleshooting skills
- Instill and apply solid engineering rigor, to include configuration
management, testing
- Develop/engineer as part of an Agile scrum team
Requirements
Basic Qualifications:
We
are actively seeking candidates with a minimum of 10 years' relevant
experience. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a STEM field is required. Specific
skills include the following:
- Possess a minimum of Active
TS/SCI w/ CI Poly (FS Poly works too)
- At a
minimum, meet DoDD 8140 requirements (Security+ CE Certification)
- Configure, deploy
and maintain IBM Enterprise Lifecycle Management (as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based
environment)
- Expertise
configuring, deploying, and maintaining applications as AaC through Continuous
Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
- Ability
to demonstrate solid engineering rigor
- Expert
troubleshooting and solutioning skills
- Experience working with relational and/or
non-relational databases (e.g. Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB)Excellent
written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly and
succinctly describe complex issues
- Experience integrating applications with
workflow, case or ticketing, or automation platforms such as ServiceNow or
custom-built systems
- Knowledge of IDAM requirements and technologies
including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, OAuth 2.0, and/or OIDC
- Demonstrated
experience with building comprehensive test plans for unit and user system
testing and validation
- Strong documentation skillsDeveloping
integration interfaces using Python, PowerShell, and Groovy
- Experience and comfort with basic DevOps Tooling (e.g., Ansible, Terraform,
Jenkins, GitLab)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Experience with Cloud
solution optimization
- Experience
configuring and instrumenting visualization tools (Grafana, Splunk) to work
with applications
- Experience
with ServiceNow
- Integration
of virtualized applications and application streaming or layering techniques
- Assist
with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical
understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud
services, infrastructure and security domains
- Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining COTS
applications/tools systems engineering experience (configuring/deploying AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based
environment)
- Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining TeamWork Cloud and Cameo (and associated tools like Cassandra DB)
as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment
- Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining SharePoint
as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment
- Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining
Tableau as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment
- Experience
with maintaining API Gateways, catalogs in a cloud-based environment
- Experience developing
cross domain capabilities
- Other
Cloud experience (Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM)
- Familiarity
with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes)
Benefits
There are no health benefits associated with this role at this time.