Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Title:SeniorDevOps 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 organizations 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

• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
• 6 years of related experience with a bachelors degree (OR 4 years with a masters 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

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $90000 - $168000
Please Note: Actual compensation offered will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience skills education certifications internal equity business considerations and geographic location where applicable.

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.

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)