26-242 C2BMC X-LAB DevOps Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems in Colorado

Responsibilities

• General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for a C2BMC DevOps Engineer. This position provides an opportunity to further advance the cutting-edge technology that supports some of our nation’s core defense/intelligence services and systems. General Dynamics Mission Systems employees work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions.
• Configures, and administers cloud computing technologies, infrastructure, and applications to meet the organizations requirements
• Assists and supports the design, deployment, management, and operation of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems in the cloud by working directly with the stakeholders
• OS Administration: Experience with Linux and/or Windows Server system administration.
• Automation: Strong background in automation and configuration management using Ansible.
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows Server system administration
• Lead and perform the installation and configuration of cloud management applications by leading medium to large sized efforts
• Develops, and designs software automation and scripts to orchestrate cloud and virtualization technologies with defined scope, schedule and expectations
• Views and analyzes summary data on cloud resource deployment and takes appropriate action
• Monitors requests and key metrics for cloud resources, as well as the performance of systems in the cloud and directs remediation
• Troubleshoots issues and plans for future cloud capacity requirements. Develops roadmap and business case for capacity growth
• Identifies, manages and resolves cloud computing security risks and implements best practices as applied within a cloud environment
• Provides subject matter expert technical support to customers using Cloud Platform products, solutions and APIs
• Identifies and documents product bugs and feature requests and works with internal support teams, external providers, as well as customers to implement effective solutions
• Supports and leads the evaluation of new service offerings from Cloud Service Providers to determine potential usage by GDMS
• May provide work direction to other employees as a technical lead

Requirements

• Master's degree + minimum 3 years of relevant experience; or Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent relevant experience + minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
• • Proficient understanding of OpenShift
• • Proficient understanding of Openshift service offerings
• • Proficient understanding of virtualization technologies: Server, Storage, Networking
• • Proficient understanding of computer programming languages: C, C Sharp, C++, Perl, PHP, and Python
• • Proficient understanding of scripting languages, and software and infrastructure automation skills, i.e Bash and Ansible
• • Detailed and fully proficient knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements
• • Experience administering systems in a virtualized Cloud environment based on Openstack/Openshift, VMware vRealize, vCloud Director, and NSX technologies
• • Strong understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity
• • Experience creating templates with CloudFormation, and similar technologies
• • Shows initiative on assignments, and professionally executes projects with very little direction, or can provide direction and leadership to technical teams
• • Proficient ability to handle significant responsibility, leadership and accountability while executing complex assignments
• • Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• • Lean-Agile mindset Proficient in the understanding and becoming familiar with the Lean-Agile mindset
• • Lean-Agile principles and practices (includes DevSecOps, Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban) Proficient knowledge of the Lean-Agile principles and practices (includes DevSecOps, Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban.
• • Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation
• Must be detail oriented individual that is able to track the impact of events/actions on the underlying infrastructure being managed, such as patching and maintenance.
• The ideal candidate will have experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python or PowerShell. They will also have experience administering virtualization technologies such as VMWare as well as experience with Windows Server and Active Directory integration in a cloud environment.
• The candidate should have experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Other desired skills include experience developing Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with Gitlab, implementing configuration management methodologies using Ansible, prior experience with a Nutanix Hyperconverged on-prem cloud platform, experience with Windows server and Active Directory. virtualization solution, spread across multiple remote suites.
• This environment includes solution like virtualization hypervisor platforms, remote virtual desktop infrastructure, other direct user experience technologies and other monitoring solution for virtual infrastructure.

Skills

Required

• Proficient understanding of OpenShift