We are seeking a talented O&M DevOps Engineer to support our project that enables US leadership to stay informed on world-wide events. International and publicly available TV and Radio station signals are streamed and viewable through a proprietary application, designed like a modern system resembling Netflix or YouTube. Users can select channels, rewind back several weeks, select segments of programs for clipping, and auto-record programs at specific times and dates like that of a DVR. The O&M DevOps Engineer will help to maintain and optimize this service.

Additional Information:

• Location: On-site with the client in Reston, VA.
• Salary: Dependent upon experience
• Security Clearance: TS with full-scope poly required
• Available: ASAP

• O&M and DevOps for an audio-video application
• Analyzes client requirements and designs solutions using security and software best practices
• Performs and automates tests for smooth deployment of software to various environments
• Resolves problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements
• Responding to tickets and issues and monitoring status to successful resolution
• Providing tier 1 support for issues and service requests through hands-on troubleshooting in the application and/or AWS console
• Coordinating handoff to tier 2 support by contacting appropriate teams or agency personnel

• Experience with Linux and AWS environments (including serverless)
• System Administration and DevOps
• Experience with deployments in AWS environments
• Experience with IaaS; implementing scalable cloud-based environments and systems; service-oriented architectures and microservices; deploying resilient, scalable, high-throughput systems that process large amounts of data
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure testing strategies
• Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, and external development teams to build and configure a high performing, scalable, cloud based infrastructure
• Create scripts and/or templates to automate and/or bootstrap infrastructure provisioning and management tasks
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology
• Experience with Cloud Formation, Terraform, Jenkins, CLI, API Gateway Lambda, Cloudfront, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Packer, Ansible

Education Requirements/Years of Experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or related
• 6+ years of experience working on related IT/development projects
• Demonstrated experience with secure development, coding, engineering practices
• Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS 
• Experience with IaaS; implementing scalable cloud-based environments and systems; service-oriented architectures and microservices; deploying resilient, scalable, high-throughput systems that process large amounts of data
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure testing strategies
• Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, from code commits to production
• Experience with systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging
• Security first mindset
• Have effective verbal and non-verbal communication with peers and clients
• Ability to work in an open team environment

Desired Certifications

• AWS SysOps Administrator, AWS DevOps Engineer, and/or AWS Developer or similar

OTHER DUTIES

• This job description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities are subject to change at any time. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. 

NOTE

• All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.