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. REQNUMBER: 2415692

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