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Design, develop, and maintain DevOps pipelines, manage software configuration, and support deployment in a secure, distributed environment.
Requires 8-12 years of experience, security clearance, experience with Git, UNIX, and DevOps tools, and ability to work in a DoD environment.
The Senior DevOps Software Engineer will assist in the design, development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting and incident/problem management for the Software Defined Networking (SDN) components. Education and Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 8-12 years of prior relevant experience • Strong working knowledge of Git and experience with development workflows in Bitbucket or an equivalent tool. • Strong experience working on a UNIX command line platform. • Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership. • Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering. • DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain interim Secret clearance prior to start date • Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 60 days of start date Responsibilities: • Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket. • Lead software configuration management (SCM) release planning and version control, providing SCM support throughout a software product's life cycle (initial software development through promotion to Test, QA and Production Environments). • Plan and manage parallel software development and release cycles as well as provide SCM for a large distributed development network with remote partners, ensuring the consistency and reliability of software builds. • Provide technical direction, leadership, guidance and training on CM processes to a team of software engineers, ensuring congruence of the various infrastructure, software, configurations and interfaces maintained under configuration control • Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools. • Design, develop, document, test and deploy software written in Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL. • Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments. • Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team, communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives. • Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues. • Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks. Technical Knowledge • Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools). • Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker (OpenShift experience is a plus). • Full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment. • Experience designing and building automated software testing pipelines using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools. • Previous SCM experience, including release planning, managing software baselines, merging branches, and producing software builds • Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus). • Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards and updating applications and code to meet security scans and security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs). • Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence. • Experience integrating code review systems into the SCM process. • Experience with static code analysis, particularly security scans. • Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team. • Experience working as part of an Agile software development team. Clearance/Citizenship: • Secret • Must be US Citizen Travel Requirements: • This position will involve less than 10% travel Location: While this role is primarily remote one must live within commuting distance to Scott AFB, IL or Ft. Meade, MD for on-site support.
This job posting was last updated on 1/27/2026