DevOps Engineer
By Light HQ1 month ago
Hanover, MD, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$115k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automation and monitoring scripts for application deployment, administration, data collection, and reporting.
- Implement and operate automated CI/CD pipelines for complex cybersecurity software applications.
- Manage virtualized and containerized assets, including virtual machines, containers, networks, servers, and communications systems.
- Support software developers, integration engineers, and test engineers in using DevOps capabilities.
- Monitor, maintain, install, and troubleshoot networked virtual machines, containers, and software applications.
- Collect and present build, network, security, and performance metrics to evaluate automation improvements.
- Balance and operate infrastructure across private corporate systems and public clouds.
- Lead small projects involving research and implementation of new technologies.
- Maintain configuration management, version control, backups, documentation, and knowledge-library content for DevOps work products.
- Train others on DevOps and automation tasks and communicate system performance information to technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline from an accredited college or university.
- Three years of work experience preferred.
- Security+ certification is required within six months of hire, with IAT Level II or higher required; CISSP or equivalent certifications are also accepted or preferred.
- U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance are required for this government-contract position.
- Experience writing, testing, debugging, deploying, and sustaining automation scripts in multiple languages.
- Understanding of commercial DevOps tools and processes, configuration management, version control, and backup practices.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, solve technical problems across integrated software and hardware platforms, and lead small technical projects.
- Preferred experience with Atlassian tools, Jenkins Pipelines, Puppet, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Harbor, and Kustomize.
- Preferred experience operating private and hybrid clouds with VMware vCenter and ESXi.
- Knowledge of or ability to learn Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, and Ansible.
- Ability to design and implement self-service portals for DevOps or IT activities.
- Effective written, verbal, interpersonal, teamwork, training, and technical communication skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Wellness program, employee assistance program, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- Education and training benefits.
- Generous leave policy including 11 federal holidays, paid time off, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave.
- Remote work arrangement with occasional scheduled work at the Hanover, Maryland location.
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About By Light HQ
By Light Professional IT Services builds cyber training environments, modeling and simulation systems, and secure IT infrastructure for U.S. defense, national security, and federal civilian customers. Its offerings include cyber ranges, LVCG training platforms, networking and cloud security services, and program support, delivered under government contracts and through its Cole Engineering Services unit. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, By Light is privately held and backed by Sagewind Capital.