Senior Deployment:Automation Engineer - AWS

SENIOR DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION ENGINEER

LOCATION: DMV - 50% onsite work

CLEARANCE LEVEL: NONE - Must be able to obtain a TS clearance

Who YOU are:

As a future Senior Deployment/Automation Engineer - AWS at Plus3 IT Systems, you:

• Are passionate about working on cutting-edge, high-profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
• Aren't satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments
• Are insatiably curious – you ask why, you explore, and you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea
• Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team
• Have a keen interest in using any and all appropriate tools, especially Cloud-based and Open Sourced, to solve the problem at hand
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together
• Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment
• Lead by example to partner with our customers and deliver mission grade solutions, delivered within a transparent Agile framework.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: develop automation and leverage DevSecOps tooling to deploy and integrate solutions, monitor system health, troubleshoot system problems, interface with other parts of the team for infrastructure support (DNS, Authentication (AD, LDAP), and Authorization), provide after-hours on-call/call-in support on a rotational basis, ensure system security requirements are satisfied, create/maintain system scripts, patch/upgrade system.

• Lead and participate within an DevSecOps team to sustain a multi-domain mission critical system
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automated solutions and deployment strategies for cloud account and resource provisioning requirements
• Document, test, and evaluate deployment strategies
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within the cloud layer
• Conduct code reviews across all committed code changes
• Provide solution designs to integrate tools into the pipeline:
• Lead the development teams to bring in new services and applications into the pipeline. Helping troubleshoot as necessary
• Work through steps to automate installations of software components and products into the Architecture
• DevSecOps Tool Integration:
• Guide integration of various tools for the DevSecOps process (GITLAB/GITHUB, SonarQube, Jenkins, Selenium, Artifactory, etc.)

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related technical discipline degree
• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of directly related hands-on experience OR
• Master's degree with 6 years of relevant experience OR
• PhD with 4 years of experience
• An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement
• Current technical certification in at least 1 discipline (Required)

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Experience with managing systems in AWS
• Experience with cross domain systems
• Experience with Hashicorp's Terraform, Packer, Consul, and Vault
• Active TS/SCI CI poly
• IC experience
• Experience with AWS RDS, MySQL, Cassandra, and/or PostgreSQL
• Experience with AWS Lambda functions
• Basic understanding of an Object-Oriented Programming Language, preferably Java
• Experience with developing, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting Cloud-based software solutions
• Demonstrated knowledge of analytical needs and requirements, query syntax, data flows, and traffic manipulation.
• Experience/understanding of PKI, SSL, and related encryption technologies.
• Experience with NiFi, HA Proxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, and ElasticSearch
• Experience with Certification & Accreditation processes

Other:

Plus3 IT Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact hr@plus3it.com [include name and/or department, telephone, and e-mail address].

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