Expert DevOps Engineer

As an Expert DevOps Engineer, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will work with talented developers and colleagues, gaining exposure to industry best practices such as AWS cloud solutions, continuous integration/delivery, infrastructure as code, and automation of testing of deployments.

Work Schedule: M – F, 8 hrs/day, Standard business hours

Essential Responsibilities:

• Maintain AWS C2S environments in support of teams of developers across various security domains.
• Support the development of CI/CD devops pipeline to include Jenkins agents and Auto Scaling Group. 
• Support administration of OpenVPN and LDAP services for access to AWS console and CI/CD tools.
• Create and maintain automated microservice deployments to AWS environment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks.
• Work with development teams to automate and accelerate build, test, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment across multiple domains/environments.
• Design, develop and implement processes for DevOps operations; utilizing CI/CD principals and patterns, employing CI/CD tools, to achieve successful continuous integration and delivery solutions for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and software applications.
• Build and maintain Cloud infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues and coordinate with development team to streamline code deployment
• Design and develop using common languages/scripting languages, such as Python, Linux Shell (Bash/Bourne/etc), and Java/SpringBoot
• Windows and Active Directory administration experience

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems
• Isolate and resolve problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications, other infrastructure, or any combination as needed
• Prepare problem reports to appropriate leads like Amazon/C2S, NGA-ESC, etc.
• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
• Installs/loads operating system and application software
• Isolate and resolve hardware and software problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications infrastructure, or any combination of these
• Troubleshoot, maintain integrity and configure network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance
• Integrate new technologies into new and existing systems including the transition and migration of corporate systems
• Monitor and report on system health using various dashboarding tolls such as Elasticsearch Kibana, AWS Cloudwatch, etc.
• TS/SCI level security clearance
• The ability to report and work on-site daily (this role is not remote).

Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI

Minimum Education:

Master’s degree plus 4 years of experience, bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of experience, associate's degree plus 12 years of experience, or a minimum of 15 years of experience, in relevant field

Minimum Years of Experience:

Master’s degree plus 4 years of experience, bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of experience, associate's degree plus 12 years of experience, or a minimum of 15 years of experience, in relevant field

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS CDK
• Apache NiFi experience
• ElasticSearch experience
• AWS Server Less, SQS/SNS, Lambda, ECS, EC2
• NGA imagery and Data Repositories
• Windows and Active Director Administration experience

This position is designated as a safety sensitive position.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment.  Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process.  Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.  

Other Responsibilities:

Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a sa