Associate DevOps Engineer

ASRC Federal Agile Decision Sciences is a premier provider of systems engineering, software engineering, system integration and project management services for real-time, mission-critical defense systems.

We are seeking a Senior Application Software Developer to support the development and sustainment of the U.S. Navy Ships Self Defense Test Ship in Moorestown, NJ.

Roles/Responsibilities

• Work in a collaborative team located in AL, CO, CT, NJ, and CA using agile software development methodology.
• Participate in software requirements review, preliminary and critical design reviews, integration readiness review, and software acceptance reviews.
• Research problems and develop solutions.
• Collaborate with and mentor software and integration engineers to establish and drive operational acceptance criteria for projects and features.
• Work alongside the team to increase quality, resiliency, reduce risk, and drive efficiencies in development, release, and operational tasks.
• Support the bridge between Information Technology and the Development Operations, working with IT closely on managing systems, VMs, and other aspects of the IT portion of the DevOps process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related engineering discipline.
• US citizenship required in order to obtain and maintain a Secret Government Clearance.
• 0-2 years' experience in software development, maintenance, or support of large-scale software programs and DevOps pipelines.
• Experience with VMWare and Linux OS.
• Experience administering git version control systems, git command-line experience required (additional experience with Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, etc. preferred).
• Experience developing with the Python language.
• Experience compiling and releasing large-scale software systems in *nix. (CMake, gcc/g++, Java, Ada experience preferred).
• Experience reviewing compiler output and identifying errors in different programming languages.
• Experience developing software with Agile development methodologies.
• Experience designing, implementing and operating build & release automation and continuous integration and deployment.
• Experience managing operational monitoring, metrics, and logging systems.
• Scripting/automation development skills.
• Demonstrated history of seeking out and bringing in new ideas.
• Remain calm and effective in the face of unexpected change.
• Unix system administration skills preferably in a container focused environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Experience releasing software and interfacing with customers and QA preferred.
• Enthusiasm for collaborative, iterative development, high quality, and robust systems.
• Ability to design and implement robust and maintainable utilities.
• Experience with issue tracking systems like JIRA or Trello.

Preferred Requirements

Experience with the following:

• XUnit architecture testing for unit testing like Google Test, pyUnit, jUnit, cppUnit Lite.
• bash/csh/perl.
• Docker.
• CMake.
• Gcc/java/ada development pipelines.
• Atlassian tool suite including Jira, BitBucket, and Confluence.
• Development measurement and validation tools like SonarQube and UCC.
• Storage and CM tools such as Gitlab, Nexus, Artifactory.
• Linux operating systems and general IT support activities.