Job Summary:
Steel Thread Software, Inc. is a privately-held, certified small business headquartered in Dulles, VA, delivering quality Information Technology services to US Federal Government agencies. They are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Subject Matter Expert to ensure the quality, reliability, and stability of production systems while facilitating organizational collaboration and seeking opportunities for improvements in delivery.
Responsibilities:
• Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development, and implementation of complex solutions by making information technology/information management related recommendations.
• Advise on organizational improvements, optimization, or maintenance efforts in the following specialties: information systems architecture, networking, telecommunications, automation, risk management, software life-cycle management and development methodologies, visual design, information architecture, copywriting, and content management.
• Leads engagement with software developers and infrastructure engineers to integrate software development and delivery from inception to full operation, ensuring robust released software and systems, typically for high traffic services or key infrastructure.
• Leads in the analysis of technical requirements of applications to ensure systems provide required availability, latency, scalability and efficiency.
• Develops the technical 'vision for fault tolerance, performance enhancement and configuration management of applications, and may lead in implementation.
• Advises infrastructure team regarding current and future systems needs and repercussions of infrastructure changes.
• May participate in the development of infrastructure and platform roadmaps.
• Leads the release of new software and systems, typically for high traffic services or key infrastructure.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A related Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5+ years of professional experience in an information technology, information management, or a related field.
• In-depth knowledge of a particular area, such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Automated Quality Testing, Software Configuration Management and Automated Platform provisioning.
• Application of principles, methods and knowledge of IT service management and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework and implement the ITIL change control standards and to incorporate them into policy and procedures.
• Knowledge of, and administration experience with Configuration Management tools such as IBM Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Subversion Jenkins and Nexus.
• Expert proficiency in Linux system administration.
• Expert proficiency in deploying Cloud based infrastructure.
• Expert proficiency in modern SCM packages (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.).
• Advanced to Expert proficiency in programming languages (Java, Ruby, C/C++, Node.JS etc), database technologies (Oracle, MySQL, Redis), and networking protocols used for the implementation of supported systems.
• 5 or more years of progressively complex related experience.
• Experience working in highest levels of large organizations; C-level reporting, large meeting facilitation etc.
Company:
Steel Thread Software has software not just in our name but in our DNA. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Dulles, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.