Sr. DevOps Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2023-11-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HVA34: Sterling, VA 22640 Davis Dr , Sterling, VA, 20164-7104 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military, and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft, and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have a critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Help shape the future of Flight Simulation! We seek an experienced Sr. DevOps Engineer to join Collins Simulation Solutions and Services (SS&S). As a valuable member of our team, you will be involved in the design, development, integration, and deployment of advanced capabilities in a high-performing virtual environment. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies independently as well as collaboratively.

SS&S develops and builds simulators and training systems for both military and commercial customers. Devices range in complexity from desktop trainers to high-fidelity weapon systems and full-flight training systems. This position is located onsite at our Sterling, VA, site.  Eligible for Relocation.

What YOU will do:

• Support and develop automation solutions that enable our teams to build and deploy code efficiently and consistently. 

• Take ownership of the program’s CI/CD pipeline, optimizing code integration and delivery of the simulation environment

• Guide teams in designing, building, testing, and deploying changes to existing software. 

• Strong troubleshooting skills for resolving issues with build chain or CI/CD pipeline tools. 

• Improve the program’s CI/CD pipeline infrastructure

• Experience with GitLab CI/CD is a bonus, as well as prior DevOps experience with Jira, Coverity, Nexus, Artifactory, Ansible, Splunk or comparable substitutes

• Identify manual processes that can be automated with recommendations for strategy and improvements, prior experience with automated testing as part of a CI/CD pipeline. 

• Consider the organization’s entire CI/CD infrastructure when making changes and improvements 

Skills you must have: 

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance is required.

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• Experience with server-side scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell

• Experience in continuous integration skills for real-time testing and diagnostics within a  virtualized environment

• Experience in automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, etc.

Skills we value:

• Experience in application development and integration within one or more IaaS/PaaS (Red Hat OpenShift / VMware / OpenStack) 

• Familiarity with cloud networking frameworks (L2, L3, and spine-leaf architecture).

• Experience in microservices using RESTful APIs 

• Experience with Agile Development methodologies such as Scrum, SAFe, or other related.

• Experience with container frameworks like Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes

• Familiarity with maintaining and deploying database technology, such as SQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MonetDB 

• Familiarity with JSON, XML, YAML and XSD formats, rules and usages 

• Experience working in Linux and Windows environments

• Experience and/or interest in refactoring legacy systems for cloud or virtual environments

• Development IDEs such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or other related

• Security Certification such as Security+, CISSP, or equivalent

• Experience in application development and integration within one or more cloud platform services such as (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware Cloud.

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