Senior DevOps Engineer

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

• 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.