DevOps Engineer- SME (Reston, VA)

• Pay Rate / Range $200,000-250,000

The above salary range represents the range expected for the position; however, final salary offers are based on a number of factors such as the position’s responsibilities; the candidate’s experience, education, and skills; location; travel required; and current market conditions. –

This program requires US Citizenship.

Our client is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 150+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.

Primary Responsibilities

List daily duties and/or specific job responsibilities.

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,

• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems

• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services

• Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience

• Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions

• Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck

• Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, Groovy, YAML, JSON, Java, and Python

• Experience with AWS CLI

• Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward

• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases

• Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage GitFlow constructs

• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.

• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

• System Administration/Privileged Access duties

Required Skills:

• Expert in using Java, JavaScript

• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices

• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit

• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo

• Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• Well versed with using version control systems

• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods

Desired Skills:

• Experience with NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, Spark, Tableau, Elastic Search, Nagios, reactsJS, UIBootstrap, Katalon and Human Centered Design.

• Experience in AWS Data management services

• Experience with the Sponsor’s entitlement management programs

• AWS certification

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