Senior DevOps Engineer

Sigma Defense Systems is a leading technology company serving the Department of Defense (DoD), providing tactical communications systems and services for digital modernization since 2006. Through our acquisitions of SOLUTE in January 2022 and Sub U Systems in May 2022, we have expanded our software and communications hardware solutions to better support JADC2, C5ISR, SATCOM, and DEVSECOPS for customers in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force. Through a combination of hardware, software, and industry expertise, we provide a complete portfolio of solutions and services that accelerates information collection and sharing for faster decision making and better mission outcomes.

We are a company of innovative professionals thriving in a highly motivating work environment that fosters creativity and independent thinking. If you are a motivated individual with a desire to support our service men and women, now is a great time to join Sigma Defense!

Why would you work for us? Quite simply, the work we do is meaningful and stimulating. We promote initiative and independent thought; we encourage direct client engagement to ensure we are delivering what the customer wants; and our engineers and scientists are working on cutting-edge projects that move the state-of-the-art closer to the people who need them. If you're looking for technical challenges and an opportunity to take a leadership role in an environment that encourages you to excel, then WE are your destination.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Sigma Defense Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Sigma Defense is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide on-site support in Patuxent River, MD USA with experience modernizing large, legacy applications to help us build and run a full DevSecOps environment and workflow for the MINOTAUR Family of Systems (Fos).

Requirements

• Must be a citizen of the United States.
• 5-8 years of experience in an IT-related job (e.g., DevOps, Software, System Administration, etc.)
• 3+ years of CI/CD and pipeline development, preferably GitLab CI.
• 3+ years of containerization experience in the following:
  • Building container images
  • Migrating applications to containers
• Optional: 1+ year of Kubernetes experience to include installing, maintaining, deploying applications, etc.
• Optional: 3+ years of software development experience.
• Optional: 3-5 years of experience working on MINOTAUR Family of Systems (FoS)
• Must have the ability to work on-site In Lexington Park, Maryland USA (NAS- Pax River).
• Experience writing clear, high-quality, maintainable, and extendable code with best practices of automated tests.

• Strong development and programming experience in any one of the following languages:
• C, C++, Java experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency with at least one scripting language, preferably Python.
• Experience performing software development in a DevOps environment utilizing tools such as Git, Jenkins, Jira, Artifactory, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

Preferred Experience:

• Six months or more of SCRUM Master experience.
• Experience with Advanced Networking Tactical System (ANTS) Operational Support System (OSS).

Personnel Clearance Level:

• Candidate must possess an active, DoD issued Secret security clearance.
• A clearance will be sponsored for the right candidate.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Software Development, Cybersecurity, or related field of study.
• A Master's degree is preferred.

Software/Programs Experience:

• Programming/Scripting Languages: C, C++, Java, Bash.
• Code Repositories and CI/CD: GitLab and GitLab