Network DevOps Engineer

FEDITC, LLC is a fast-growing business supporting DoD and other intelligence agencies worldwide. FEDITC develops mission critical national security systems throughout the world directly supporting the Warfighter, DoD Leadership, & the country. We are proud & honored to provide these services.          

 Overview of position:

FEDITC is seeking a Network DevOps Engineer to work at Scott AFB, Illinois. A United States Citizenship and an active Secret DoD Security Clearance is required to be considered for this position.

 Responsibilities:

• Determines opportunities to make process improvements and remove toil through automation
• Acts as a change advocate, encourages culture change and modernizes legacy workflows
• Creates and maintains a suite of network and system’s automation tools
• Able to work as a sole contributor, working autonomously on projects.
• Typical duties include: 
  • Automates the provisioning and upgrades of network routers and switches
  • Maintains and improves a network CI/CD pipeline through Gitlab CI and EVE-NG
  • Builds ad hoc Python scripts to interact with various network APIs
  • Automates lab environments, maintaining test/dev/production environments
  • Assists network and systems engineers with their daily workflow

Experience/Skills:

• 5+ years of Python development experience
  • Ability to create basic Flask and Django REST APIs
  • Expertise with network automation libraries such as Netmiko, Scrapli, and pyATS
  • Familiarity with templating engines such as Jinja2
  • Interaction with databases through SQLAlchemy
  • Can call REST APIs through the requests and httpx libraries
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Gitlab CI experience preferred
• Experience creating and running Docker/Podman containers
• Knowledge of network emulation platforms such as Cisco CML, EVE-NG, and GNS3
• Experience in areas such as network design and implementation, LAN/WAN interfacing, security, Internet protocols and TCP/IP, and server and network infrastructure

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Previous experience automating infrastructure
• Public repository of network automation projects
• Understanding of domain driven design practices
• Experience with network specific APIs (NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI)
• Ansible expertise
• Knowledge of document processing languages such as Markdown and LaTeX
• Basic knowledge of terraform
• Experience with distributed computing
• Knowledge of frontend languages/frameworks

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent work experience

 Certification:

• A professional certification, such as Cisco Devnet Professional is highly desired

 Clearance:

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• Must be a US Citizen and pass a background check.
• Maintain applicable security clearance(s) at the level required by the client and/or applicable certification(s) as requested by FEDITC and/or required by FEDITC’S Client(s)/Cust