DevOps Engineer II - Flight Simulation (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-09-15

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.

DevOps Engineer II - Flight Simulation (Onsite)

Help shape the future of Flight Simulation! We seek an experienced 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 requires an active US security clearance. Most aspects of the job are done in a classified lab environment, and this position requires a daily onsite presence. This position is located onsite at our Sterling, VA site. Eligible for relocation assistance.

What YOU will do:

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

• Use troubleshooting skills to resolve issues with build chain or CI/CD pipeline tools.

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

Education and experience:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field or in absence of a degree, 6 years of relevant experience.

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued secret security clearance or higher is required prior to start date.

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

Skills you must have:

• Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CI/CD Pipelines.

• Experience with common software development and management tools such as GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Coverity, Nexus, Artifactory, and Splunk.

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

• Experience with a virtual environment such as VMware, Proxmox, etc.

Skills we value:

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

• Experience with continuous integration for real-time testing and diagnostics within a virtualized environment.

• 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 (e.g. Scrum, SAFe).

• Familiarity with Docker/ Podman containers, or Kubernetes orchestration.

• 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