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Position Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Requisition ID: 1775
Position Location: Sterling, VA
Position Reports To: Senior Manager, Software Engineer
Supervises Others: No

At Trident Systems, we believe that strong engineering principles are fundamental to driving innovation and solving complex problems. We promote a culture characterized by rigorous engineering practices and a commitment to continuous improvement. This is achieved by leveraging our organization's collective expertise through collaborative development processes, which include thorough design and peer reviews. We can deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that meet our customers' evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in aerospace electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation effects mitigated, designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space.

Position Summary

Trident is seeking a highly capable Senior DevOps Engineer to support the development, automation, and modernization of software and embedded systems environments across mission-critical aerospace and defense programs. This role will drive CI/CD, infrastructure automation, system reliability, and DevOps process improvement across engineering teams.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and support DevOps initiatives across software, embedded, and infrastructure environments.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting embedded and cloud-based development workflows.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and testing using Infrastructure as Code and scripting tools.
• Administer and optimize DevOps toolchains including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Support Linux and Windows development/test systems, Azure-based infrastructure, networking, authentication, patching, and monitoring solutions.
• Develop automated deployment strategies for virtualized, containerized, and embedded hardware environments.
• Collaborate with software, IT, security, and program teams to improve development, release, deployment, and compliance processes.
• Maintain engineering tool licensing, user access, backups, documentation, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Support modernization efforts including application refactoring, cloud migration activities, and adoption of modern DevOps practices.
• Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree (OR 4+ years with a master’s degree)
• Experience leading integration and production activities.
• Experience in supporting DevOps tools and associated pipeline environments such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Zephyr, and Artifactory.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration and Git.
• Familiarity with automation strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Java, Python, Bash, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Experience creating product verification and validation plans.
• Experience with Azure services (VMs, Blob Storage, SQL dbs etc.)
• Experience working with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations.
• Experience in system platform maintenance (STIGs, compile dependencies, etc.).
• Experience in database administration (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.).
• Azure Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• Ability to obtain a Security Clearance
  

Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Basic life with AD&D
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)
  • Spending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental, maternity, and military)
• Annual discretionary bonus (for eligible roles)

Trident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Trident Solutions is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@tridsys.com.

Pay Transparency: The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)