DevOps Engineer

Overview:

BAI, a defense contractor, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support TEALMISSILE, at Annapolis Junction, MD. Opportunities for career advancement, excellent benefits and long-term stability are some of the advantages of our growing, employee-focused company.

Salary

The typical annual salary range for this position is $160,000.00 USD to $200,000.00 USD. Salary will be based on current qualifications, directly related experience, geographic location, and possible contractual requirements which could fall outside of this range.

Responsibilities:

Shall have at least eight (8) years’ experience in DevOps development/engineering such as installing and configuring software; managing servers, networks, and technology tools; monitoring and maintaining systems for required levels of security, performance, and accreditation; and troubleshooting issues and outages

Shall have at least eight (8) years’ experience in DevOps technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ELK

Shall have at least eight (8) years’ experience in scripting such as Terraform, Ansible

Shall have familiarity with developing DevOps for Microsoft Windows or UNIX/Linux/Centos family of operating systems

Shall understand technical writing and have familiarity with technical documents in support of a software development project

Efforts will focus on DevOps engineering of a modernization effort to converge NSA’s authoring, dissemination, and other supporting tools

Deploying applications; installing and configuring complex software; managing network servers and technology tools; monitoring and maintaining the system for required levels of performance; and troubleshooting issues and outages

Candidates will be required to work a rotating pager schedule for emergency 24/7 call-in support as required (roughly one week out of every 4-6 weeks)

Staff may charge 4 additional hours for the week they are on call in addition to hours worked

Work location is a combination of 135 National Business Parkway, Annapolis Junction, MD and up to 1 day per week of telework as project tasking allows

Qualifications:

Qualifications / Required technical skills include experience with:

Linux

AWS, MASH, and VMs

Docker Swarm

Deployments of distributed web applications (e.g. GitLab CI/CD)

Terraform scripting and VM provisioning

Ansible scripting and development

Thorough understanding of Docker & Docker Compose container technology

Git

Desired Experience / technical skills include experience with:

Python scripting and development

NiFi maintenance and configuration

Elasticsearch maintenance and configuration

Java / Spring Boot (troubleshooting error logs)

HAProxy

MongoDB

Table 1 – Desired Skills and Technologies

Skills

Front End User Interface (UI) Development, Middle-Tier Development, Back-End Development, Full Stack Development, Agile Software Development Practices, Application Programming Interface (API) principles, Artificial Intelligence, Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), Automated Testing, Cloud Analytics, Cloud-based System Administration, Containerization, Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD), Data Modeling, DevOps, Distributed Web Applications, Firewall Administration, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Kanban Software Development Practices, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Microservices, Monitoring and Alerting, Network Engineering, Recommender Services, Relational Databases, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Scripting, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Systems Engineering, Technical Documentation, User Accessibility, Virtual Machines, Web Services

Commercial Technologies

Accumulo, ActiveMQ, Akka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular, Ansible, Apache, Apache NiFi, Apollo, Artemis, ASP.NET, Atlassian, Backbone.js, Bash scripting, Bootstrap, Cassandra, CentOS, CoffeeScript, CSS, Cypress, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Drools, Eclipse, Elasticsearch, ExtJS, Flink, Git, Gitlab, Gradle, Grafana, GWT, Hadoop, HAProxy, Hazelcast, Heron, Hibernate, HTML, IDE, Firebug, Java, JavaScript, JBlocks, Jenkins, Jetty, Jira/Confluence, JMS, jQuery, JSON, Kafka, KeyDB, Kibana, Kubernetes, Linux, Logstash, Maven, MongoDB, MBatis, MySQL, nginx, Node.js, OpenSSL, Oracle, PKI Certificate Administration, Percona, Postgres, Prometheus, Pulsar, Puppet, Python, Rancher, React.js, Redis, RESTful Web Services, SaltStack, Scala, Selenium, SOAP Web Services, Splunk, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring MVC/Beans, SQL, Squirrel, Storm, Subversion, Swagger, Sybase, Terraform, Terragrunt, Tomcat, Typescript, Vue.js, Web Security, XML, Zookeeper

EDUCATION

Degree:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

Allowable Substitution:

A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university may be substituted for four (4) years of DevOps experience.

A Master’s degree can be substituted for two (2) years’ experience.

CLEARANCE

Top secret.

We cannot accept CCA candidates for this position, and polygraphs must have been completed within the last seven years.

Condition of Employment: Applicant must have an active Top Secret Clearance.

CITIZENSHIP

The applicant must have US citizenship at the time of application.