
Lead DevOps Engineer
- Sterling, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
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CACI seeks a cleared engineer to lead the DevOps team for a program of record building class-leading Digital SignalProcessing (DSP) hardware and applicati ons. The successful candidate will have hands-on experience in developing, transforming, and championing DevOps best practices for end-to-end CI/CD processes.Responsibilities:
- Working with other DevOps engineers to consolidate and standardize builds across an array of applications running C++, python, and java.
- Mentoring junior team members and championing best practices
- Collaborating with software development teams and DSP engineers to understand requirements and implement new capabilities
- Working with cybersecurity engineers to ensure systems and processes meet information assurance requirements
- Assisting agile leads in setting priorities, building and maintaining the backlog, and defining and decomposing bodies of work from epics to subtasks.
- Interfacing with program leadership and customers to understand and shape strategic objectives
- Top Secret security clearance, SCI eligible, willing to obtain Polygraph
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 7+ years of industry experience as a DevOps engineer
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, etc)
- Familiarity with OCI-compliant container technologies (docker, podman, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of build tools and release management across an array of technologies (RPM, Python, Maven)
- Experience deploying, administering, and building pipelines with GitLab, especially with a focus on scalability and reusability (templates, triggers, build chains)
- Extensive experience administering RedHat Enterprise Linux or similar distributions in both bare-metal and on-prem virtual environments (ProxMox, VMWare)
- Familiarity with software configuration management and version control practices. Desired:
- Active Top Secret / SCI clearance with Polygraph
- DoD 8570.1 certifications (Security+, CISSP, etc)
- Experience with cloud deployments, especially focused on security, scalability, and automation (Terraform, EKS)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes configuration and management
- Knowledge of networking configurations and hardware, especially with Cisco equipment (DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs, VPNs)
- Experience using automated testing and security scanning tools (e.g., SonarQube, Fortify).
- Experience with interpreting, implementing, and maintaining cybersecurity baseline configurations (STIG, NIST 800-52 and 800-171, etc)