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Company: SAIC
Location: Reston, VA
Career Level: Director
Industries: Technology, Software, IT, Electronics

Description

Description

SAIC's Space & Intel Business Group, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, is seeking a Chief DevOps Engineer to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. This position is in Reston, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph. 

In this role, you will work within an existing team to develop enhancements to an existing service-based web application.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
  • Apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
  • Ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation.
  • Support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships.
  • Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment.
  • Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, hardware and networks. •
  • Design, develop or maintain SQL-based databases.

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • Bachelors and 18 years or more experience; Masters and 16 years or more experience; PhD or JD and 13 years or more experience.
  • Demonstrated experience working with ElasticSearch. 
  • Experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
  • Experience in platform and application automated deployment. 
  • Knowledge of cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization.
  • Experience in cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations.
  • Ability to implement DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
  • Experience incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices.
  • Experience working within cloud computing environments, Linux and Unix-based operating systems, and using ElasticSearch and Kibana. 
  • Ability to use requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
  • Experience maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware and networks.
  • Experience installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
  • Ability to monitor system performance and troubleshoot.

Desired Software Engineering Skills:

  • Experience in programming, software tools and packages, operating systems, and networking to solve collection needs in multi-cloud environments.
  • Ability to manage software applications in a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, etc.).
  • Experience with Python.
  • Ability to listen and transcribe from mission need to technical requirements. 
  • Ability to assess project requirements and make informed technical recommendations.
  • Experience developing and documenting scripts on Linux platforms.
  • Experience designing, developing, and maintaining SQL-based databases, including PostgreSQLand MySQL.
  • Ability to develop PL/SQL database scripts, including procedures, functions, exception handlers, and triggers.
  • Experience writing and tuning complex queries against structured and unstructured data sets.
  • Experience developing, documenting, and maintaining secure and scalable REST APIs.
  • Experience integrating services using messaging technologies, including service buses, publish and subscribe, and MQ.
  • Experience working with geo-locational data at both the backend and the application tier.
  • Ability to develop software in a DevOps environment.
  • Experience maintaining Jenkins Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with automated testing and deployment.
  • Experience using Git as a source code repository.

Desired Skills:

  • Demonstrated experience working with big data processing and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MapReduce, and HBase. 
  • Demonstrated experience with Apache NiFi.
  • Experience with the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes.
  • Ability to manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities using Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs)
  • Knowledge in applying FISMA security controls. 
  • Ability to document and communicate technical and non-technical mission requirements for all audiences.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with other technical teams across multiple organizational boundaries.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.


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