Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Automation and Orchestration Engineer

The U.S. Navys Service Management Integration and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program that provides engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) the largest information technology (IT) network in the world. This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.

This person should be a seasoned self-motivated professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure as code environments automating patches and system configurations orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines automating and orchestrating operations scaling releases and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments.

Primary Responsibilities:

Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration release management implementation & migration and training & knowledge transfer

SRE Engineering and Integration:

• Automate routine tasks and software updates document and maintain functional integration security and load/stress testing procedure
• Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing integration/regression testing all new applications and all new capabilities
• Develop Ansible playbook design role development and testing in non-production environments as well as migration to production networks

Release Management:

• Participate in the development of the release management process procedures and policies
• Establish manage update and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule
• Conduct site surveys as necessary to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies

Training & Knowledge Transfer

• Develop document and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes
• Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced

Required Qualifications

• BS and 4 to 8 years of hands-on site reliability engineering automation ideally with federal government; addl experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security CySA GICSP GSEC Security CE CND SSCP)
• Experience working in a DevOps Continuous Delivery (CICD) and Agile environments using code delivery mechanisms continuous build systems code repositories and continuous delivery solutions
• Secret Clearance
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel).
• Experience with automated script design coding debugging and maintenance skills (using bash python etc.) preferred
• Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins GitLab etc.)
• Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools such as Chaos Monkey Gremlin or similar frameworks.
• Good command of Linux/Unix and command line knowledge
• Experience in application administration configuration and integration
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative forward thinking and innovation-driven environment
• Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices with a desire to grow that knowledge
• Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira Confluence Bitbucket etc.).
• Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows projects custom configurations
• Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins)
• Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell or Python
• Integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.
• Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers
• Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.
• Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform Cloud Formation Chef Puppet Ansible or similar technologies.
• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) DISA STIGs

Preferred Qualifications

A highly qualified candidate will also have:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform Ansible or CloudFormation for automating test environments.
• ITILv4 Scrum Master or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience

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