Senior Integration Test Engineer

About the position

FTI is looking for an experienced Integration Engineer with DevOps or DevSecOps (Development / Security / Operations) experience to join our growing organization. This position requires experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using pipelines to automatically take committed code, run it through tests, and optionally, deploy that code into production. A keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and solid knowledge base are essential. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working with Space/Ground Systems across the Department of Defense (DoD) Space domain. This work will primarily be performed in Colorado Springs, CO, with travel to integration sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Follow established protocols and develop new procedures to deploy integrated systems.
• Analyze requirements and integrate functionality.
• Troubleshoot issues and provide solutions.
• Strive to decrease overall latency in development and deployment cycles by applying DevOps/DevSecOps best practices.
• Create and maintain the CI/CD pipeline.
• Be a champion of infrastructure as code, deployment automation, test automation, and configuration management process (Automate Everything!).
• Work in a team environment with minimal supervision.
• Continually obtain new skills and be a mentor for junior team members.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active Top Secret (TS) security clearance (with SCI and SAP eligibility).
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences, Engineering or related field required (Master's degree preferred).
• 6+ years' experience with Integration/DevOps.
• Understanding of Space Force ground architectures, to include Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) ground systems (desired).
• Experience with Platform as a Service (PAAS).
• Experience with Linux infrastructures.
• Experience with Database SQL (MS SQL), CI/CD tools.
• Experience with Scripting tools such as Python, Perl, Ruby.
• Hands-on experience with building and managing release systems, code merging and promotion, and CI/CD workflows and tools.
• Experience working with DevOps/DevSecOps toolchain products, including Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Artifactory, Jenkins, GIT in production environments.
• Experience with revision control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce).
• Experience working with and delivering using Agile practices.
• Monitoring experience with Splunk, Elk, Kibana, Grafana, etc.
• Previous experience with infrastructure development, or development and operations.
• Experience with development and automated testing.
• Experience performing deployments into an operational environment.
• Familiar with integration environment security/vulnerability tools, and experience securing the integration environment configuration and enforcing security policies.
• Experience implementing modern IT solutions in compliance with U.S. Government and DoD Cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST/DoD RMF/DISA STIG and SRG).
• Knowledge of / familiar with containerization concepts (OpenShift, Docker).
• Experience with system administration tasks to include installing/configuring/securing common Operating Systems (RHEL and Windows).
• Sufficient familiarity with network technologies (routing, firewalls, VLANs) to be able to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Working knowledge with or understand deploying environments with Terraform.
• Strong interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently.
• Ability to work independently with geographically dispersed team.