DevOps Engineerer

Type of Requisition:Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:None

Public Trust/Other Required:NACI (T1)

Job Family:Systems Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:DevOps, GitHub, LinuxCertifications:NoneExperience:3 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:Yes

Job Description:

The Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure (CCTE) is a scientific organization working to support Agency decisions by providing solutions-driven research to rapidly evaluate the potential human health and environmental risks due to exposures to environmental chemicals and ensure the integrity of the freshwater environment and its capacity to support human well-being. This position is in the Scientific Computing and Data Curation Division (SCDCD) within the Application Development Branch (ADB). This position will work closely with the Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications Specialist, Developers and Operations Engineers to support our in house developed applications and the COTS DevOps applications.

Responsibilities

Works with Senior DevOps Engineer in support of the tools and processes to design, build, deploy, manage, and monitor of over 20 web applications in dev/staging/production environments. Supports Application servers (RHEL) with updates, user permissions, web application configuration management, and log management. Participates in Agile ritual meetings. Thrive in an autonomous environment surrounded by unsolved problems.

Day to Day

Assisting development teams in deployments Troubleshooting delivery failures and application outages Modification of current CI pipelines (adding or changing environmental variables, testing steps, or build steps, etc) Documentation of current processes and updating documentation with process changes Automating processes to reduce time to deployment or increase efficiency Analysis of problem areas via logs and monitoring metrics to improve server and application performance

Products Supporting

This position supports CI/CD for applications that are developed in-house that are both public and intranet facing. There are approximately 20 web applications that serve to either showcase scientific data via dashboards or curate scientific data. This position will also assist in support of the follow COTS applications: Jenkins, Portainer, Slack, Atlassian Bitbucket, Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana, Docker, Apache, HAProxy, Ansible, Docker Registry, SonaType Nexus, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, among others.

Experience

Must Have:

Ideal candidate would have at least 1 year experience as a web developer or linux administrator with either at least 2 years of college or some related certification(s) sure as RCSA, Docker Certified Associate, or similar. If Linux administrator minimum 1-year experience with linux administration skills using technologies for web applications such as Apache, Nginx, and/or HAProxy. If Developer minimum 1-year experience in an Agile development such as scrum or Kanban If Developer minimum 1-year experience with source code version control management, code merging, Git Flow, DevOps CICD tool experience: Jenkins / Bamboo / Github actions for complete automation implementation (experience at some level) with some playbooks (Ansible ) or other. Able to implement through Source Code (IaC - Infrastructure as Code) to automate the initial CICD pipelines ideally as replicated services. Docker containers with some orchestration: Docker Swarm and/or Kubernetes. Also, Overall devops orchestration tool like Portainer DevOps Monitoring software: ELK or Prometheus - utilization of these tools to troubleshoot container deployment errors. Git source code how to use.

Nice to have

Experience with Linux configuration management tools using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar technologies Experience with Bash Scripting, Java, Python, Groovy, and/or Ruby Experience with centralized application logging management tools such as Elastic stack, Graylog, Fluentd or similar technologies Experience with automated testing integration Experience with Atlassian tools such as Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence. Experience with open source tools. In most cases there is not a support mechanism in place accept for reading the documentation. Experience with CI/CD platform such as Jenkins or GitLab or GitHub CICD Experience with containerized technologies such as Docker Experience with Source code processing (Git) with basic operations such as comparing deltas in code | checkin check out | proper Merging and Pull Requests. Especially needed for IaC (Infrastructure as Code) in DevOPs.

Other

Associates Degree and/or Certification Must be able to have a Government Furnished Equipment (GFE Computer), access to the EPA VPN, and access to a VDI Pro machine furnished by VDI. Must be able to attain a background investigation that will enable the candidate to have a security clearance capable of administering systems that are critical to CCTE busines and mission. This is a high risk position.

The likely salary range for this position is $97,750 - $132,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:40

Travel Required:None

Telecommuting Options:Remote

Work Location:Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employees date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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