Principal DevOps Engineer

Position Title

Principal DevOps Engineer

Requisition ID

TBD by HR

Home Office Location

Fairfax VA

FLSA Designation

Exempt

Hybrid/Remote Option

Yes

EEO Job Category

Professional

Position Reports To

Software Engineer Manager

Pay Range

TBD by HR

Supervises Others

No

FTE

1.0

At Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) division we believe in the power of using strong engineering principles to drive innovation and solve complex problems. We foster a culture of rigorous engineering and continuous improvement leveraging the full knowledge of our organization through collaborative product development processes that include design and peer reviews. We combine our expertise in space electronics with right-sized development processes to create innovative high-performance space-based electronic systems that meet our customers evolving needs.

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 seeks an enthusiastic and highly capable Principal DevOps Engineer (internal Level 5) to join our growing organization. This role will aid the overall Trident team with improving and standardizing Pipeline and Embedded Software production environments. This role is open for remote applicant consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support current local systems and remote AWS development and test environments collaborating with project and customer team members while spearheading improved solutions toward benefits in reuse and operational efficiencies.
• Maintain synergy with Security and IT for compliance alignment.
• Automate provisioning of test compute equipment.
• Support DevOps tools and associated CI/CD pipelines with configurations to suit specific programs.
• Participate in Agile sprints and associated activities.
• Create robust and reusable product test plans for software and hardware.
• Support engagements related to assessing refactoring and identifying opportunities for existing applications to take advantage of modern application architectures.
• Identify pain points and improve DevOps maturity for Programs including development builds releases deployment and monitoring with security and agile processes/methods/capabilities.
• Automate application and BSP deployment into varied and complex environments using virtual machines container technologies embedded hardware and bare metal servers.
• Ability to support travel or off-site work as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
• At least 10 years of experience including experience in 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.).
• Excellent oral written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• CompTIA Security certification.
• Experience creating product verification and validation plans.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS 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.).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional.

Benefits

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

• Health benefits
  1. Medical
  2. Dental
  3. Vision
  4. Basic life with AD&D
  5. Short term disability
  6. Long term disability
  7. Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D accident critical illness hospital and pet)
  8. Spending accounts (HSA FSA and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including automatic company contribution)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental pregnancy and military)
• Potential annual bonus

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

Trident Systems 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.

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 contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)