Lead DevOps Engineer

Key Skills

Ansible, Apache Kafka, Automation, AWS, Azure, Bash scripting, Cloud computing, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Database, DevOps, Effective communication skills, GitLab, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), JIRA, Kubernetes-K8s, Leadership, Python Programming, Scrum Agile Methodology, Terraform

Job Description

About the Team 

STR’s Analytics Division develops novel solutions to the most challenging national security problems through advanced analytics. Our teams consist of motivated individuals with degrees in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, and data science. We use our expertise and creativity to take innovative ideas from conception to everyday use by our customers. 

The Analysis and Decisions Systems (ADS) Group in the Analytics Division works to help humans make the best decisions possible. We build solutions that make a difference in mission planning, autonomous systems reasoning, and more.

The Role: 

As a Lead Devops Engineer, you will work as part of tightly knit Agile software teams to design and implement Continuous integration/ continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines utilizing GitLab or other CI/CD systems. This includes: 

• Supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS) toolsets in an unclassified environment; 
• Maintaining multiple CI/CD environments at multiple classification levels where AWS is not available;
• Configuring CI/CD environments for application performance, security monitoring, and alerting.
• Acting as a point person with the corporate IT organization to ensure that infrastructure toolsets are configured, maintained, reliable, and in compliance with Department of Defense standards.
• Advocating for and educating engineers on DevOps fundamentals while helping to implement solid software development processes.

This role will take advantage of STR’s flexible, hybrid environment – when the work does not require use of STR’s facilities, you are welcome to work remotely. 

Who You Are: 

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field 
• Experience with all relevant technologies including:
• CI/CD tools (Gitlab) and pipeline automation
• Cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and automated provisioning tools (such as Ansible, Chef, TerraForm)
• Containerization technologies such as Docker and Podman
• Experience in writing code for scripting languages, such as Python and Bash
• Kubernetes management solutions such as EKS and Rancher 

• Experience deploying, and monitoring Kubernetes clusters and pod configurations 
• Organized, detail-oriented, and with an ability to work both independently and collaboratively 
• Demonstrated experience as an effective communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences
• U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a Security Clearance 

Even Better:

• Active Security Clearance at the Secret or Top Secret (TS) level 
• MS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field 
• Experience in: 
• Full web-service stack, including databases, logging, and monitoring 
• Project tracking tools such as Jira 
• Designing, deploying, and monitoring Kafka clusters 
• Deploying and maintaining artifact repositories (such as Nexus, Artifactory) 
• Deploying and configuring static and dynamic code analysis tools (such as SonarQube, Coverity).
• Leading teams in an Agile/SCRUM software development process 

STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.