DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. 

SAIC’s National Intelligence Community (NIC) business unit, USG Mission and Information Technology division provides solutions and services supporting digital modernization programs in areas such as system engineering, multi-cloud computing, cyber security, data science and analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, quantum computing, application development, SecDevOps, cloud network operations and secure communications.

We are seeking a highly motivated SecDevOps Engineer to join our program to support the customer’s mission through data discovery and sharing of new insights using existing and emerging technologies.   The SecDevOps Engineer will champion the collaboration and communication between security, development, test, and IT operations in order to establish a culture where building, testing, and releasing software happens rapidly and frequently with minimal re-work, focusing on process improvement to drive and utilize metrics to increase efficiency and always keeping security in the forefront. 

Responsibilities Include: 

• Driving the development of Security and DevOps culture, process, pipeline and platform behaviors and implementing Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and automation efforts.
• Participating in the full software development lifecycle, working within broadly defined parameters.
• Looking for improvement opportunities for long-term DevOps practices and leading change to remove impediments.
• Leading and participating in DevOps driven team projects and continuously improving DevOps processes and procedures for best practices.
• Proactively contributing to the quality of the product by seeking and proposing new or alternate approaches to address the requirements.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Required:
  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
  • Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline. Note that years of experience can be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience maintaining and enhancing infrastructure as code (IaaS)  with technologies including but not limited to CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, AWS CodeDeploy 
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, and other scripting languages 
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience maintaining Sponsor’s enterprise operation systems 
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience using knowledge management and code repositories including but not limited to GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and  Confluence 
  • Experience writing or refactoring software code to facilitate deploying applications to standalone compute resources, and the Sponsor’s commercial cloud environment
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Experience working with Linux OS
  • Experience with JIRA and Confluence, and the rest of the Atlassian suite
• Desired:
  • Familiarity with managing data in relational databases and distributed computing systems in cloud storage 
  • Familiarity with the Sponsor’s security accreditation process 
  • Familiarity with ingesting data into SQL and NoSQL database systems.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are more than 26,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a respectful work culture based on diversity, equity, and inclusion that values all contributors. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.