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Lead DevOps Engineer 

The Team:  

Information processing and sense-making systems are the lifeblood of national security efforts, facilitating an understanding of the global situation, strategic planning, and tactical execution. The reliability, accessibility, and sophistication of these systems can determine the outcomes of conflicts before they begin. STR's Analytics and Command & Control (AC2) Division focuses on developing actionable, advanced technology solutions to provide asymmetric advantages within the information domain. 

The Mission Applications (MA) Group within the AC2 Division creates outsized mission impact with our customers through specialized application and deployment of STR technology. Staff within the MA group have a deep understanding of missions and technology needs for national security with skills targeting transition of technology to operational use, including product management, UX Product implementation, software integration & mission engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, and program management. MA staff combine with other engineering staff from the various STR research and development groups to form dedicated product teams focused on accelerating the operational transition of cutting-edge software technologies. 

 The Role: 

As a DevOps Engineerin the Mission ApplicationsGroup, you will work as a leader of software teams to design, develop, and maintain infrastructure and tooling to deploy software in operational use. You have experience managing relationships with customer environments while simultaneously leading engineering teams to ensure the delivered product meets the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance.You will work as part of tightly knit Agile software teams to design and implement Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelinesfor various unique deployment environments. Thisroleincludes: 

• Supportingcloud (e.g., AWS)toolsets in unclassified environments 

• Configuring andmaintainingmultiple CI/CD environments atdifferentclassification levels, focusing on developer productivity, application performance, security monitoring, and alerting 

• Liaising with corporate IT to ensure teaminfrastructure toolsets are configured,maintained, reliable, and in compliance with Department of Defense standards 

• Coaching team memberson DevOpsbest practiceswhilecontinuouslyhelpingto improveprocesses. 

This role will take advantage of STR's flexible, hybrid environment - when the work does not require use of STR's facilities, you are welcome to workremotely. Youshould expect to spend someportionof time every week(2-3 days)in STR's or US Government facilities.You can expect tosupportsoftwareapplicationsdeployed on classified operational networks that can onlybe accessed at STR or government facilities. 

Who You Are: 

• Must be a U.S. citizen 

• Active US Security Clearance with SCI Eligibility 

• BS in Computer Science or related field with at least 5 years of work experience 

• Experience with all relevant technologies including: 

• CI/CD tools (Gitlab) and pipeline automation 

• Cloudplatforms (such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and automated provisioning tools (such as AnsibleorChef) 

• Containerizationtechnologies such as Docker andPodman 

• Kubernetes management solutions such as EKS and Rancher 

• Experience deploying, and monitoring Kubernetes clusters and pod configurations 

• Basic knowledge of Linux System Administration 

• Knowledge of Python and Linux Shell 

• Knowledge of Cyber Security fundamentals 

• Organized, detail-oriented, and ability to work both independently and collaboratively 

• Demonstrated experience as an effective communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences 

• Located in San Diego, CA, Denver, CO, Arlington, VA, or Boston, MA, or willing to relocate. 

 Even Better: 

• Active Security Clearance at the Top Secret level  

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field 

• Experience in: 

• Fullweb-service stack, including databases, logging, and monitoring 

• Projecttracking tools such as Jira 

• Designing, deploying, andmonitoringKubernetesclusters 

• GitOpstools likeArgoCDor Flux 

• Deployingandmaintainingartifact repositories (such as Nexus, Artifactory) 

• Deployingand configuring static and dynamic code analysis tools (such as SonarQube, Coverity). 

• Platformssuch asArgoCD, Flux orTerraForm. 

• Leadingteams in an Agile/SCRUM software development process 

• Current Security+ Certification 

 Pay Information 

Full-Time Salary Range: $175,000 - $240,000 

The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate's experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.