DevOps / Cloud Engineer

KBR - Springfield, VA

Full-time

Springfield, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

KBR is seeking a DevOps/Cloud Engineer to support government customers in the Washington Metropolitan Area. This role focuses on providing software development and technical expertise to modernize test and evaluation processes, working closely with scientists and engineers to automate manual and analytic tasks. The engineer will also support the decomposition of existing business processes into micro-services for deployment through a DevOps infrastructure, while analyzing the output of DevOps tools to assist in overall assessments.

Responsibilities

• Implement a broad range of DevOps activities such as test and deployment automation strategies, release and configuration management, and the utilization of cloud-based technologies for the creation of immutable environments.
• Lead the assessment of legacy processes and the re-engineering of new methodologies and processes, with a strong emphasis on cloud capabilities and Platform as a Service / Infrastructure as a Service (PaaS/IaaS).
• Coordinate all aspects of a release lifecycle including development and test activities and releases/deployment of code through different environments (Development, Test, Staging, UAT, Production).
• Lead a team creating self-service capabilities for developers to write and manage microservices.

Requirements

• Must have proven track record assessing and reviewing existing application architecture and providing assessment results, recommendations, and insights.
• 12+ years' experience.
• Extensive experience in Cloud/Data Center administration, especially with a public cloud provider (e.g., AWS).
• Hands-on experience with the function, configuration, outputs, and limitations of common cloud and DevOps environments and tools, including one or more of the following: Configuration/project management (e.g., RedMine, Jira, etc.), Source Control (like Git, Bitbucket, Svn, etc.), Continuous Integration (like Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.), Test Automation (like selenium, soapUI, Jmeter, etc.), Infrastructure Automation (like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.), Deployment Automation & Orchestration (like Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, etc.), Cloud (like AWS, Azure, GoogleCloud, Openstack, etc.).
• Experience implementing DevOps processes such as Green/Blue deployments and Canary releases, and with DevOps Architecture best practices such as Microservices, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Environment management, technical troubleshooting and problem-solving.
• Demonstrated scripting and deployment automation skills/experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language.
• Knowledge of ICD 503 requirements and their application to secure information systems.
• Security Clearance Requirements: Active TS/SCI (CI Poly preferred).