DevOps Engineer

Frontier Technology - Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Chantilly, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

FTI is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. FTI provides mission-tailored, technology-enabled services and solutions that enhance the ability of the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and the Federal Government to make the best decisions possible in support of national interests. Furthermore, FTI supports those who safeguard our nation with advanced technology, services, and expertise while building upon our values to make a positive impact on our customers, each other, and our communities. Our culture is built around our 4Cs: Core Values (Ethics, Morals, Integrity, Honesty, Sincerity), Commitment, Compassion, and Charity. Candidates must be in or willing to relocate to the DC Metro area or Chantilly, VA. There is some allowance for remote work, but there is a requirement for candidates to report on-site as needed.

Responsibilities

• Identify areas for process automation improvement, automate existing and new processes, maintain, and deploy cloud infrastructure, and support the Agile software development lifecycle build process.
• Develop automation solutions utilizing Ansible Automation Platform and RedHat.
• Leverage automation tools to reduce security compliance errors/vulnerabilities and improve Gitlab security reporting.
• Integrate with internal back-end infrastructure systems.
• Perform root cause analysis for security relevant issues for development environment.
• Investigate and resolve security technical CI/CD issues.
• Identify technical problems and develop software updates and fixes.
• Assist in baselining and maintaining container standards and enforcement.
• Align to industry best practices to integrate security within a Software Factory.
• Analyze Gitlab security scanning and work with development teams to resolve those issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or similar field of study.
• 5+ years of DevOps Engineering experience.
• Experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments.
• Experience with developing & deploying automation services for continuous monitoring & observability tools (Kibana, Elastic, Splunk, etc).
• Experience troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues related to CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness.
• Knowledge and experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, Groovy, GoLang, Rust or Ruby.
• Experience with DevOps pipeline tools and technologies, including Jenkins, Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes.
• Ability to obtain Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification within 6 months of hire.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and possess an active TS/SCI Clearance.