DevOps Engineer - Senior - Nationwide IT Services

DevOps Engineer - Senior

Minimum Education: BA or BS degree.

Security Requirements: SECRET Clearance

Certification: SAFe Agile certification or an industry-recognized equivalent certification.

Clearance / Background Investigation

• IT-II eligibility/clearance OR a current NACLC at the time the proposal is submitted.
• NACLC = National Agency Check with Law and Credit, an older federal background-investigation designation.

• Must hold an applicable Cloud Service Provider (CSP) certification.
• Examples:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect (Azure SA)

• Must hold CompTIA Security+ or equivalent certification

Position Summary

Nationwide IT Services, NIS, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help teams develop new software solutions and refactor existing monolithic applications into microservices running in hardened containers, for a potential opportunity.

The engineer guides application teams in using DevSecOps continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, deploys and sustains a microservices factory using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and open-source solutions, and supports implementations across on-premises and cloud environments. This role supports all task areas. This is a full-time, fully remote opportunity supporting a federal customer and supports all task areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide application development teams as they refactor existing applications or create solutions that use DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Define and oversee the strategy and architecture for continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring across technologies.
• Deploy and sustain a microservices factory using COTS and open-source tools and hardened containers.
• Lead DevOps practices and support the use of SAFe Agile methods for large-scale client environments.
• Implement test-driven development (TDD) practices and drive an automated software development lifecycle toolchain.
• Engineer complex technology implementations in a product-centric environment, including deployments on-premises and in the cloud.
• Use scripting or basic programming to automate work and solve technical problems.
• Apply configuration management and containerization tools appropriate to the project environment.