Senior Devops Engineer

Syms Strategic Group - Roanoke, VA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Roanoke, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior DevOps Engineer at Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is responsible for maintaining and developing continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for federal government projects. This role involves automating build processes, supporting CI/CD tools, and collaborating with software developers to ensure efficient release management. The position emphasizes the importance of automation, operational excellence, and adherence to best practices in a cloud-based environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build/integration infrastructure.
• Source Control Management and Documentation.
• Creating and maintaining fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments.
• Writing build and deployment scripts.
• Supporting CI/CD tools integration, operations, change management, and maintenance.
• Support full automation of CI/Testing.
• Supporting policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for CI/CD operations and developer work.
• Training and supporting developers from source control through build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, and deployment.
• Enable successful release management by moving code from Development and Testing environments to Staging and Production.
• Work closely with software developers, production support, and information security to automate and support infrastructure and tooling in cloud-based platforms.
• Apply automated deployment tool sets and infrastructure including environments and code management using CI/CD processes.
• Perform and/or support response activities for operational and security incidents.
• Drive the implementation and rollout of application reliability, including disaster recovery.
• Provide guidance and apply agile and DevOps/DevSecOps practices to streamline product delivery and reliable operations of products.
• Continuously identify opportunities to automate and save time.

Requirements

• Outstanding interpersonal, written, oral, and presentation skills.
• Proficient with Source Control Management best practices and automation tools.
• Expertise with build automation tools such as Jenkins.
• Knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management (Git and Rational preferred).
• Experience with build time dependency management (Maven, Ivy), unit testing and code coverage tools (JUnit), and functional test automation techniques and tools (Selenium, Fortify, JMeter, etc.).
• Experience with Open Source Repository Manager (NPM, Sinopia).
• Proficient with Linux and creating Virtual Machines (Vagrant).
• Good understanding of Quality Control and Test Automation in Agile-based Continuous Integration environments.
• Prior experience with DevOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Tomcat, and Virtual environments.
• Experience with content management and issue tracking (JIRA).
• Experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to establish operational processes and implement DevOps deployment checklists.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment build tools (Jenkins, Ansible).
• Knowledge of developing solutions in an iterative (agile) approach.
• Knowledge of basic networking concepts.
• Knowledge of system configuration tools and implementation of architectural frameworks.
• Expertise with build automation tools (Jenkins).
• Knowledge and experience with Linux Admin: Maintain/upgrade Linux packages, security, networking, performance tuning, system resource management, capacity planning, user process monitoring.
• Azure experience mandatory.
• Professional Certifications in DevOps and Azure highly desirable.
• Formal Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or other engineering or technical degree.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of developing solutions in an Agile approach.

Benefits

• 100% remote work opportunity.
• Encouragement for military veterans to apply.