Senior Staff/Senior DevOps Engineer

SciTec has been awarded multiple government contracts and is growing our creative Team! SciTec, Inc. is a dynamic small business with the mission to deliver advanced sensor data processing technologies and scientific instrumentation capabilities in support of National Security and Defense. We support customers throughout the Department of Defense and U.S. Government in building innovative new tools to deliver unique world-class data exploitation capabilities.

Important Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. SciTec cannot sponsor or assume sponsorship of employee work visas of any type. Further, U.S. citizenship is a requirement to obtain and keep a security clearance. Applicants that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.

SciTec has an immediate opportunity for an experienced Senior Staff or Senior DevOps engineer to assist with micro-service orchestration and message streaming technologies. This role may expand over time into ownership of the entire DevSecOps process for additional software solutions in real-time operational frameworks for DoD and USG customers. The hired DevOps engineer will work with a team of scientists, engineers, analysts, and business developers responding to a broad set of use cases.

Responsibilities

• Manage integration, security scanning, and deployment of multiple applications into orchestrated frameworks
• Coordinate and collaborate with advanced technical users of orchestrated frameworks targeting scientific and analysis objectives
• Orchestrate deployments to development, test, and operational environments either on-prem or cloud
• Understand, identify, and communicate micro-service architecture configurations to enable a variety of use cases for internal and external customers within an orchestrated framework
• Create, implement, maintain, monitor, and integrate CI pipelines with development tools for version promotion, artifact management, software test, software quality assessment, etc.
• Enable real-time data processing with streaming platforms/workflows as well as messaging libraries and ensure their reliability and scalability
• Implement Continuous Delivery and execute automated or manual deployments of applications into orchestrated environments
• Execute checkout and troubleshooting of deployed applications within development and production environments.
• Execute software release processes including release branch creation, integration, checkout, and test
• Ensure cybersecurity protocols are followed
• Other duties as assigned.

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences
• At least five years of professional experience designing and developing application container deployment solutions using Docker, Podman, docker-compose, Kubernetes, etc.
• At least five years of professional experience with version control using Git
• At least three years of professional experience with data streaming platforms, such as Kafka
• At least three years of experience with messaging libraries, such as, ZMQ and RabbitMQ.
• At least three years of professional experience building and executing DevOps or DevSecOps solutions using Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• At least one year of experience with SQL and noSQL database solutions, such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• At least one year of experience using Python3
• At least one year of experience using Linux operating systems
• Some experience maintaining deployment environments for development, test and production
• Some experience with authentication technologies, such as Keycloak
• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
• Ability to work up-to 100% on-site, detail oriented, good verbal and written communication skills

Candidates who have any of the following skills will be preferred:

• A master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences
• Existing DoD or IC security clearance
• Experience with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
• Experience with software vulnerability scanning with static and dynamic code analysis
• Experience with software vulnerability assessment and remediation using SAST/DAST and tools like Sonarqube
• Experience with software package artifact management using JFrog Artifactory, Nexus or similar
• Development experience in C++
• Development experience in Java
• Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Experience with Istio service mesh as well as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with container security tools such as Grype, Syft
• Systems and service administration in a Linux environment, including the installation and maintenance of applications supporting CI/CD like Gitlab, etc

*Resumes, Cover Letters, and Applications which are generated by AI will not be considered for employment.

SciTec offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• 3% Fully Vested Company 401K Contribution (no employee contribution required)
• 100% company paid HSA Medical insurance, with a choice of 2 buy-up options
• 80% company paid Dental insurance
• 100% company paid Vision insurance
• 100% company paid Life insurance
• 100% company paid Long-term Disability insurance
• Short-term Disability insurance
• Annual Profit-Sharing Plan
• Discretionary Performance Bonus
• Paid Parental Leave
• Generous Paid Time Off, including Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Pay
• Flexible Work Hours

The pay range for this position is $125,000 - $163,000 year. SciTec considers several factors when extending an offer of employment, including but not limited to the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills. This is not a guarantee of compensation.

SciTec is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. VET/Disable