At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.
Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.
Requisition #: 1269
Title: DevOps Engineer
Clearance: Public Trust
Location: Remote – Washington DC Metro Area
Salary: $175,000
Overview:
Agile Defense is looking for a DevOps Engineer to be part of a growing team in the federal sector.
This candidate must have excellent written and oral communication skills and be adaptive to the changing needs of the organization. This candidate must have experience with building and maintaining highly effective relationships with team members and multiple stakeholders across multiple projects. The DevOps Engineer will support applications in the AWS cloud and shall be responsible for the development, testing, and maintenance of automation scripts, infrastructure tools, DSLs CI/CD pipelines utilizing Ruby and related technologies.
As a direct employee of Agile Defense, you would receive a benefit package that includes health/dental/vision insurance coverage, 401K with company match, PTO & paid holidays, and annual tuition/training assistance.
Clearance:
· DHS USCIS Public Trust (Level 6)
Responsibilities/Duties:
· Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement to efficiently deliver solutions frequently with quality.
· Write code, building infrastructure as code, work with immutable “cloud” based environments, and build the supporting automated toolsets to test and deploy the systems they develop.
· As an DevOps engineer, analyze, design and implement strategies for continuous deployments while ensuring high availability on the development, pre-production and production environments.
· Maintain services (and supporting cloud infrastructure) once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
· Establish strategy/toolset/framework for automating testing of services and products, develop best practices for test automation and develop test suites,
· Design, develop and implement solutions based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization’s goals and objectives
· Develops and provides training as needed
· Develops technical documentation as needed
Required Qualifications:
· A Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in related field or equivalent work experience can be substituted instead of a degree.
· At least 4+ years of experience in CI/CD pipelines (Ansible, Jenkins, sonarqube, sonartype nexus, etc) and infrastructure development (AWS, cloud formation, Terraform, RDS), windows build automation, windows system administration.
· At least 4 years of experience with revision code source code repositories in particular git and SVN
· At least 4 years of experience with strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tools sets, technologies and implementation environments
· At least 4 years of experience and understanding of typical three-tier enterprise application architectures
· At least 4 years of experience of practical Linux based systems administration skills and scripting experience in a Cloud-based environment.
· At least 4 years of experience with automating processes with one or more scripting languages such as ruby, Bash, and/or Python.
· Must be a US citizen.
Preferred Qualifications:
· USCIS or DHS Experience
About Us:
Agile Defense delivers IT strategy, cloud, cybersecurity, application, data and analytics, enterprise IT, intelligence analysis, and mission operation support services to accelerate technical performance and efficiency for Defense, Civilian, and National Security & Federal Law Enforcement clients.
Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.
What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.
We also believe in supporting our employees by offering a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. To explore the benefits we offer, please visit our website under the Careers section.
Happy - Be Infectious.
Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
Helpful - Be Supportive.
Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
Honest - Be Trustworthy.
Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
Humble - Be Grounded.
Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
Hungry - Be Eager.
Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
Hustle - Be Driven.
Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.
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