ADDITIONAL DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

• Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle
• General understanding of the build automation process
• Experience with virtual machine provisioning and configuration
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Self-directed and motivated to learn
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.
• Working knowledge of Make and/or Clearcase
• Working knowledge of Gradle
• Working knowledge of Puppet/Chef, Nexus/Artifactory, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes, SonarQube
• Active secret clearance
• Well versed in modern continuous delivery principles and best practices
• Experience with virtualization architectures including RedHat KVM, VMWare ESXi/vSphere

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

Implement continuous delivery best practices within our software development lifecycle. Implement and support a continuous integration and continuous delivery model to streamline development, deployment and testing of multiple software baselines. Work with systems and software engineers to deploy operating systems and software builds along with supporting the development infrastructure of required tools.

• Partner with engineering teams to automate every stage of the software development life cycle.

• Assist in designing and implementing an infrastructure to support DevOps practices in an on premises cloud environment, including but not limited to:

• • Refine and simplify the process of delivering engineering changes to the Training Systems.
• Recommend and introduce tools to help achieve this goal.
• Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the development workflow and delivery of the Training Systems.
• Identify automation opportunities within configuration management, build, packaging, deployment, and testing.
• Design, implement, alter, and test CI/CD pipelines.
• Build tools to reduce the overhead and streamline building, packaging, deploying, and testing.
• Creating solutions to give developers fast feedback on engineering changes.
• Researching and delivering new and innovative methods for providing continuous delivery solutions.
• Develop automated test tools to verify build and deployment mechanisms.
• This position has no on-call requirements
  Qualifications:

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL HAVE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant STEM field.
• More than two years of experience in a Software Engineer role
• Proficiency working in Linux environments (RHEL7/CentOS7, RHEL8/CentOS8).
• Proficiency working with Bash Shell Scripting
• Proviciency working with Python
• Proficiency working with Ansible
• Experience with at least one compiled language (e.g. C, C++, Rust, Go)
• Ability to obtain a secret clearance