DevOps Engineer / Systems Administrator

Noblis is seeking to hire a DevOps Engineer/Systems Administrator with an ACTIVE Top Secret Clearance in Bridgeport, WV

Interested in meaningfully contributing and joining our multi-disciplinary team focused on developing solutions for law enforcement and homeland security missions?  Want to be exposed to and help build cutting-edge tools and services that address high-consequence problems using advanced technology like analytics, computer vision, digital forensics, natural language processing, and machine learning?  Ready for a high-energy, dynamic work environment?  This multi-faceted opportunity might be right for you.  

You would join our team as a technologist to work with our clients to help design, create, deploy, migrate and maintain solutions in cloud environments. In your role you will work with various teams to develop, deploy, maintain, and migrate solutions in multiple environments that are transforming the way law enforcement and homeland security communities handle, process, analyze, visualize, and translate information into actionable information.  

Responsibilities:  

• Provides engineering and technical support in areas of design, development, engineering, research, evaluation, deployment, integration, and maintenance of software and systems.  

• Leads software deployment, monitoring, and maintenance activities  

• Conducts design and code reviews, participates in daily scrums, retrospective, and other agile ceremonies  

• Coordinates with the development team to support QA/QC and troubleshooting activities  

• Provides assistance monitoring and resolving issues with deployed systems   

• Must possess an active Top Secret security clearance 

• Bachelor of Science in Technology, Engineering, or Computer Science (or related field) and a minimum of 8 years of related experience OR Master’s Degree in Technology, Engineering, or Computer Science (or related field) with 5+ years of experience 

• You have hands on experience in one or more of the following areas: Linux system administration, database management, DevOps, software development and engineering, and cloud-based technologies  

• You have hands on experience of a broad ranges of technology systems and are able to work with:  

• Cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure  

• Microservice architectures, software platforms and frameworks like Kafka, Redis, NiFi, and Ansible.  

• Monolithic and hybrid architectures and databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Elastic, rdbms, nosql  

• Programming languages and scripting methods including: Python, Bash, Java, C, C++, .NET  

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment systems: Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, Gitlab 

• Orchestration platforms including Docker or Kubernetes 

• Revision control systems such as git  

• You have working knowledge of the following Atlassian products: Jira and Confluence 

• You have working knowledge of Agile software development frameworks (Scrum and SAFe)  

• You are willing to support the client on-site with hybrid option as tasking allows 

• Has experience working with law enforcement clients  

• Experience installing and/or maintaining an Openstack environment  

• Complements our existing team, likes solving problems, and is comfortable with ambiguity    

• Can self-manage, has strong self-organization skills, and is eager to contribute  

• Strives to be an excellent engineer/developer, is eager to explore innovative technologies, and develop new skills  

• Is comfortable working with teams across geographic bounds      

• Desire to work in an agile and cross functional team environment, understand team goals and generate appropriate, innovative analytical insights to drive process and experience improvement   

• Challenges the status quo and are hungry to explore, evaluate, and understand new technologies

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us

Why work at a Noblis company?

Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerous workplace awards. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis’ total compensation package.

Noblis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race (as well as because of or on the basis of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

Noblis is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Noblis will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact employee-relations@noblis.org.