DevOps Lead

Responsibilities & Qualifications

RESPONSIBILITIES

The DevOps Lead is responsible for shaping the organization's DevOps strategy and implementation. The DevOps lead will coordinate the efforts of product development teams with that of operations teams to streamline the development process and build and evolve an automated, secure, and scalable continuous delivery pipeline with high-quality, innovative product releases to mission customers. Responsibilities include leading the design and integration of DevOps tools and technologies for deployment, monitoring, and operations of mission systems software products; working with application teams to help them adopt continuous build, inspection, testing, and deployment approaches; participating in all aspects of DevOps Engineering and promoting industry standard methodologies in DevOps Engineering; helping to configure and monitor DevOps performance; and ensuring maximum uptime and optimal performance for mission customers in the Production environment.

 

 REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A minimum of a TS/SCI with Polygraph
• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, or related technical field.
• A minimum of Ten years of experience working in an operational environment responsible for the development, O&M, as well as client support of large-scale enterprise
• A minimum of five years of experience utilizing Agile software development
• A minimum of eight years of IT experience including at least five years of software­ related DevOps experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with various DevOps tools (e.g., Jira, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, GitHub, BitBucket, Docker, etc.).
• Experience developing Infrastructure as
• Experience building software or solutions using PHP, Bash, Perl, Ruby, Python, or similar programming languages and technology stacks.
• Experience leading cross-functional
• Experience solving difficult/complex problems and leading people through
• Experience utilizing testing practices and frameworks including automated testing suites, unit testing, and end-to-end and user-acceptance
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)-Certified Solutions Architect or Developer, Associate or preferably Professional level.

Overview

We are seeking an DevOps Lead to join our team supporting ODNI HALO.

 

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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Additional Job Information

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Location: WASHINGTON METRO AREA (WMA)
• Type of environment: Office
• Noise level: Low
• Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday – Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
• Amount of Travel: 30% within WMA

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee i