Senior Principal Cloud DevOps and Platform Engineer

at  General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 10+ years of job-related experience, or a Master’s degree plus 8 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.
Clearance Requirements:
Ability to obtain a Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities for this Position:

CANDIDATES SHOULD HAVE DEMONSTRATED STRENGTHS AND EXPERIENCE IN SOME OF THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

• Experience working with, or are familiar with the differences between, public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments
• Container technologies such as Docker, or Kubernetes
• Deployment of continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience maintaining production-grade applications in virtualized environments (cloud computing platforms and services) using automation
• Creation of pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, and/or Terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from resource creation to service configuration
• Effective communication and attention to detail

OTHER BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE:

• IT security practices including encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing
• Installation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies such as Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, RHOSP, or VIO
• Management of Cloud Resources in Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or OpenShift
• Cloud automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, or Packer
• Open source server, messaging, load balancing, and database software (such as RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers (NGINX)/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)

As a Senior Principal Cloud DevOps and Platform Engineer, you will:

• Work on the hardest Platform engineering problems involving heavy creativity and innovation, sometimes involving open areas of research
• Lead major feature advancements in our products
• Become a subject matter expert in our Platform automation and architecture
• Lead research spikes to integrate new capabilities into our Platform
• Help break down work and contribute to roadmapping sessions
• Help set technical objectives for the team
• Develop automation to create and maintain several PaaS deployments
• Automatically configure and deploy PaaS infrastructure consisting of identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, deployment and more
• Interface with internal and external customers to deploy solutions and deliver workshops to educate and empower them
• Work closely with our team to plan major updates and enhancements to our products
• Guide engineering teams in evolving Cloud technologies

In this role, you are the Platform Engineer working with Critical internal and external Platform Consumers. Together with the team, you will support successful implementation of a PaaS in the Cloud through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.