Chief DevOps Engineer

Description

SAIC’s Space & Intel Business Group, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, is seeking a Chief DevOps Engineer to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. This position is in Reston, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

In this role, you will work within an existing team to develop enhancements to an existing service-based web application.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• Apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• Ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
• Support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
• Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
• Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot hardware and networks.
• Design, develop or maintain SQL-based databases.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Bachelors and 18 years or more experience; Masters and 16 years or more experience; PhD or JD and 13 years or more experience.
• Demonstrated experience working with ElasticSearch.
• Experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Experience in platform and application automated deployment.
• Knowledge of cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization.
• Experience in cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations.
• Ability to implement DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Experience incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices.
• Experience working within cloud computing environments, Linux and Unix-based operating systems, and using ElasticSearch and Kibana.
• Ability to use requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Experience maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware and networks.
• Experience installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Ability to monitor system performance and troubleshoot.

Desired Software Engineering Skills

• Experience in programming, software tools and packages, operating systems, and networking to solve collection needs in multi-cloud environments.
• Ability to manage software applications in a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Experience with Python.
• Ability to listen and transcribe from mission need to technical requirements.
• Ability to assess project requirements and make informed technical recommendations.
• Experience developing and documenting scripts on Linux platforms.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining SQL-based databases, including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Ability to develop PL/SQL database scripts, including procedures, functions, exception handlers, and triggers.
• Experience writing and tuning complex queries against structured and unstructured data sets.
• Experience developing, documenting, and maintaining secure and scalable REST APIs.
• Experience integrating services using messaging technologies, including service buses, publish and subscribe, and MQ.
• Experience working with geo-locational data at both the backend and the application tier.
• Ability to develop software in a DevOps environment.
• Experience maintaining Jenkins Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with automated testing and deployment.
• Experience using Git as a source code repository.

Desired Skills

• Demonstrated experience working with big data processing and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MapReduce, and HBase.
• Demonstrated experience with Apache NiFi.
• Experience with the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes.
• Ability to manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities using Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs).
• Knowledge in applying FISMA security controls.
• Ability to document and communicate technical and non-technical mission requirements for all audiences.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other technical teams across multiple organizational boundaries.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.