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Job Summary:
Spry Methods is seeking a DevOps Engineer Jr to join their team in Quantico, VA. This role involves overseeing the creation, deployment, and ongoing support of software applications and systems, with a focus on integrating third-party applications and ensuring software meets business needs and performance standards.
Responsibilities:
• Deploys and configures services using infrastructure as a service provider (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, RackSpace/OpenStack).
• Configures and manages Linux-based servers to serve a dynamic website.
• Debugs cluster-based computing architectures.
• Uses scripting or basic programming skills to solve problems.
• Installs and manages open-source monitoring tools.
• Configures management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt).
• Architecture for continuous integration and deployment, and continuous monitoring.
• Uses and works with containerization technologies (e.g., LXC, Docker, Rocket).
• Shall maintain, manage, and update current and future third-party software (e.g., COTS and GOTS tools) and ensure full compatibility, usability, security, and optimal performance.
• Shall apply updates, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate with software vendors as needed to resolve issues or implement changes.
• Shall maintain, manage, and update current and future application programming interfaces (APIs), ensuring full compatibility, usability, security, and optimal performance.
• Shall develop, maintain, and custom software solutions when the Government determines no other solution is available to meet the LD requirements.
• Shall ensure software development adheres to industry standards, best practices, DOJ, and FBI standards for the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Shall develop, maintain, and provide documentation for all software (third party or developed), to include APIs, scripting, automation, changes, testing, and user/administrator guides.
• Shall implement and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the testing, deployment, and monitoring of software applications, when required by the government.
• Shall conduct regular code reviews, secure coding techniques, vulnerability scanning, and testing (unit, integration, system, and user acceptance) to ensure quality and performance, when required by the government.
• Shall collaborate with stakeholders to gather and validate requirements ensuring software solutions align with Laboratory objectives and user needs.
• Shall provide training and support to internal teams on new software applications and updates to ensure smooth adoption and effective use.
• Shall stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, continuously evaluating and integrating new tools and practices to enhance software development and maintenance processes.
• Shall design, develop, deliver, and sustain automated functional Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processing and pipelines and validate extracted data from structured and unstructured inputs.
• Shall validate data that is extracted from structured and unstructured data sources, databases, and other repositories, using scripts and other automated capabilities to load data, logs, and queries.
• Shall advise government personnel on incremental changes that could lead to continuous improvement in products or processes.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Top Secret (TS) security clearance
• One year of experience (In absence of years of experience, certifications or past work may be used to show the level of experience needed to perform at this level.)
• Have experience with Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise (SAFe), Scrum and Kanban.
Preferred:
• Experience working in a multisystem environment to include FBINET, UNET, LabAPP, Sensor Management System, Sample Tracking (Visi-Trac RFID), Records Management System, ADAMS Web, STACS-DB (Sample Tracking and Control System – Database), STACS-CW (Sample Tracking and Control System – Casework)
Company:
Spry is a certified Small Business headquartered in McLean, VA. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Mclean, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.