Entry Level Devops Engineer Jobs in Columbia, MD

Job Summary:
By Light Professional IT Services LLC provides technology and systems for federal agencies and warfighters. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to research, develop, implement, and maintain DevOps processes and tools for automating the integration and deployment of DoD cybersecurity software applications.
Responsibilities:
• Ability to perform many duties involving DevOps functions including, but not limited to, authoring and maintaining automation deployment and monitoring scripts, researching, implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) tools and processes, automating application deployments, managing virtualized and containerized assets, creating virtual and physical network configurations, servers, communications, and test and developer engineering support.
• Must be able to author and maintain scripts in a variety of languages. Work products must be configuration managed.
• Analyze real world problems and implement solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, DoD DevOps guidance, and industry best practices.
• Assures system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
• Support the implementation and operation of a fully automated CI-CD pipeline that leverages enterprise container and virtualization platforms
• Monitor, maintain, install, and support networked virtual machines, containers and software applications
• Assist software developers, integration, and test engineers to best utilize DevOps capabilities
• Trouble-shoot capabilities to diagnose system problems;
• Utilize an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work
Qualifications:
Required:
• Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology from an accredited college or university.
• Three years of work experience preferred.
• Security+ required within 6 months of date of hire
• Additional certification are a definite plus or working towards a certification(s).
• IAT Level II or greater. Security+, CISSP or other equivalent certification within six months of date of hire.
• Understanding of commercial DevOps tools and processes
• Use scripting languages for automation, administration, data collection and reporting. This job requires the ability to write, test, debug, deploy, and sustain scripts.
• Configuration manage, version control, and backup various scripts and work products created to execute and maintain the environment.
• Prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
• Lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills.
• Professionally convey system-wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Train others to perform similar DevOps and automation tasks. Support a corporate library of knowledge by maintaining and evangelizing content.
• Interact with developers to understand software changes that will impact development and testing activities, examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements.
• Solving technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.
Preferred:
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA, etc.), Jenkins Pipelines, Puppet, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Harbor, Kustomize.
• Experience with private and hybrid cloud design/operation/monitoring/deployment: VMware vCenter and ESXi, generally maintained at the most current version.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn Kubernetes and Docker.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn OpenShift.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn Ansible to automate deployment and destruction of virtual machine, network, and other virtualized assets in VMware environments.
• Ability to design and implement self-service portals for conducting DevOps or IT related activities.
• Prior or current experience with Agile development processes.
Company:
BY LIGHT Professional IT Services is a provider of IT, cloud, cyber and infrastructure solutions to the US Federal Government. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Arlington, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.