Senior Staff/Senior DevOps Engineer

SciTec

Princeton, NJ
$125,000-163,000 per year
Permanent
Full-time

27 days ago
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SciTec has been awarded multiple government contracts and is growing our creative Team! SciTec, Inc. is a dynamic small business with the mission to deliver advanced sensor data processing technologies and scientific instrumentation capabilities in support of National Security and Defense. We support customers throughout the Department of Defense and U.S. Government in building innovative new tools to deliver unique world-class data exploitation capabilities.Important Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. SciTec cannot sponsor or assume sponsorship of employee work visas of any type. Further, U.S. citizenship is a requirement to obtain and keep a security clearance. Applicants that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.SciTec has an immediate opportunity for an experienced Senior Staff or Senior DevOps engineer to assist with micro-service orchestration and message streaming technologies. This role may expand over time into ownership of the entire DevSecOps process for additional software solutions in real-time operational frameworks for DoD and USG customers. The hired DevOps engineer will work with a team of scientists, engineers, analysts, and business developers responding to a broad set of use cases.Responsibilities

Manage integration, security scanning, and deployment of multiple applications into orchestrated frameworks
Coordinate and collaborate with advanced technical users of orchestrated frameworks targeting scientific and analysis objectives
Orchestrate deployments to development, test, and operational environments either on-prem or cloud
Understand, identify, and communicate micro-service architecture configurations to enable a variety of use cases for internal and external customers within an orchestrated framework
Create, implement, maintain, monitor, and integrate CI pipelines with development tools for version promotion, artifact management, software test, software quality assessment, etc.
Enable real-time data processing with streaming platforms/workflows as well as messaging libraries and ensure their reliability and scalability
Implement Continuous Delivery and execute automated or manual deployments of applications into orchestrated environments
Execute checkout and troubleshooting of deployed applications within development and production environments.
Execute software release processes including release branch creation, integration, checkout, and test
Ensure cybersecurity protocols are followed
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences
At least five years of professional experience designing and developing application container deployment solutions using Docker, Podman, docker-compose, Kubernetes, etc.
At least five years of professional experience with version control using Git
At least three years of professional experience with data streaming platforms, such as Kafka
At least three years of experience with messaging libraries, such as, ZMQ and RabbitMQ.
At least three years of professional experience building and executing DevOps or DevSecOps solutions using Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
At least one year of experience with SQL and noSQL database solutions, such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB
At least one year of experience using Python3
At least one year of experience using Linux operating systems
Some experience maintaining deployment environments for development, test and production
Some experience with authentication technologies, such as Keycloak
The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
Ability to work up-to 100% on-site, detail oriented, good verbal and written communication skills

Candidates who have any of the following skills will be preferred:

A master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences
Existing DoD or IC security clearance
Experience with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
Experience with software vulnerability scanning with static and dynamic code analysis
Experience with software vulnerability assessment and remediation using SAST/DAST and tools like Sonarqube
Experience with software package artifact management using JFrog Artifactory, Nexus or similar
Development experience in C++
Development experience in Java
Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Experience with Istio service mesh as well as Prometheus and Grafana
Experience with container security tools such as Grype, Syft
Systems and service administration in a Linux environment, including the installation and maintenance of applications supporting CI/CD like Gitlab, etc

*Resumes, Cover Letters, and Applications which are generated by AI will not be considered for employment.BenefitsSciTec offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package, including:

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
3% Fully Vested Company 401K Contribution (no employee contribution required)
100% company paid HSA Medical insurance, with a choice of 2 buy-up options
80% company paid Dental insurance
100% company paid Vision insurance
100% company paid Life insurance
100% company paid Long-term Disability insurance
Short-term Disability insurance
Annual Profit-Sharing Plan
Discretionary Performance Bonus
Paid Parental Leave
Generous Paid Time Off, including Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Pay
Flexible Work Hours

The pay range for this position is $125,000 - $163,000 year. SciTec considers several factors when extending an offer of employment, including but not limited to the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills. This is not a guarantee of compensation.SciTec is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. VET/Disable

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