DevOps Engineer in Springfield, VA at honor foundations

Date Posted: 3/15/2025

Job Snapshot

Job Description

Job Profile:

Systems Engineering T4

JR Type:

Evergreen

Job Category:

Engineering

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

TS/SCI with Polygraph

Percentage of Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Type of Travel:

Local

Program/Opportunity Name:

Program | UDS

Referral Bonus Plan:

* * *

Job Description:

Opportunity

Our work depends on a TS/SCI DevOps Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO or Springfield, VA. This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, costeffective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team the DevOps Engineer's expertise is nee sophisticated enterprise environment. The Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings

Responsibilities

  • Automate and optimize service deployments; Integrate with enterprise authentication services

  • Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems

  • Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives

  • Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.
  • Administer production, staging and development environments

  • Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents

  • Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage

  • Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools

  • Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening and documentation

  • Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing

  • Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems

  • Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring continuity of recurring tasks

  • Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
  • Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
  • Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

  • Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability

  • Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner

  • Aligns to the customer's strategies; Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline; Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest; On-call support may be required

    Qualifications

    Required—

  • 8+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

  • 3+ years of related systems programming experience

  • Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana Grafana, Nagios)

  • Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift

  • Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes

  • Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes

  • Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices

  • Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting

  • Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

  • Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure

  • Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis

  • Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain CI po ly

    Desired—

  • Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
  • Understanding of access mgmt and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SHH, VPN

    CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic. Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here.

    Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position.

    The proposed salary range for this position is:

    $89,500-$188,000

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