Automation Developer

Automation Developer

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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The Opportunity:

CACI is looking for an Automation Developer to join our team! In this role, you will provide technical expertise in the areas of DevOps automation to an Information Technology (IT) Systems Engineering team supporting the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Enterprise Information Technology as a Service (EITaaS).   

Responsibilities:

The Automation Developer will be responsible to provide expertise for the coding and execution of automation test scripts, analyze user stories, create automated integration, and oversee system acceptance test cases to ensure software quality and compliance in support of a new User Experience (UX) Data Integration Platform. As the Automation Developer, you will work with the team to build an integration hub to ingest data from multiple Enterprise IT technology solutions with the goal of building enterprise visibility. 

Responsibilities include:

• Network DevSecOps role in the project delivery cycle migrating customers to the cloud and designing DevOps operational processes, deployment checklists, etc.
• Communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, sharing knowledge and insight
• Function as a member of a small team tasked with developing, deploying, and maintaining a multi-tenant, multi-platform, infrastructure to provide lab IT enclaves
• Develop scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, PaaS, and container orchestration systems, or other applicable platforms
• Identifying, analyzing, and optimizing cloud operations processes in collaboration with the Network, Platform, Database, and Applications teams for automating
• Writing process requirements documents and decomposing each requirement into multiple user stories for bi-weekly sprint development cycle
• Designing, documenting, developing, testing, and deploying automation tools using Git, Python, Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins in the cloud
• Analyzing changes in business requirements and updating the existing documents, processes, methods, procedures, and tools to work with these changes
• Designing and writing test automation scripts
• Using test automation frameworks
• Design, develop and build automation solutions for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Continuous Testing processes
• Investigating problems in software as a result of testing
• Generate log files/reports and provide analysis of the data collected for issue resolution and network performance metrics
• Inform management in a clear, concise, and timely manner of any customer or automation related issues
• Assists in the confirmation of bugs reported from outside sources, document and communicate them to the development team. Verify when resolved
• Assists in the identification, selection, and implementation of software tools and technologies, and testing techniques and procedures that facilitates automated testing and quality assurance
• Testing, deploying, and advocating the use of DevOps technologies such as Git, Python, Ansible, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Kubernetes, and Jenkins
• Writing standard operating procedures and training our operations engineers to use and maintain the automation tools
• Writing process requirements, technical design documents, and standard operating procedures

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Ability to obtain/maintain Secret clearance
• 10+ Years of relevant experience (Bachelor’s Degree in applicable field

may be substituted for 5 years of experience).

• DoD 8140 compliant (ex: Security+)
• ITIL V4 familiarization and understanding
• Experience with networking concepts and logging and monitoring of hybrid-cloud workloads
• Understanding of application security patterns including web application security, service mesh and mobile security strategies
• Working experience with architecting CI/CD/CT and DevOps pipelines
• Working knowledge of at least one configuration management tool, such as Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet
• Experience writing effective PowerShell scripts
• Experience working with enterprise vendors such as Infoblox, Equinix, NetApp, AWS, and Cisco
• Experience working with a Scrum Master, Daily Scrum meetings, sprints and written deliverables
• Strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment and decision-making skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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