Systems Engineer

Labor Category: Systems Engineer Position Title: Systems Engineer Position Level: Level 1 - Subject Matter Expert Salary: Up to $260,000.00 per year Core Hours: 9am to 4pm Location: Chantilly VA Description: Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph. DevOps Engineer - Seeking a DevOps Engineer on a 150+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months. Primary Responsibilities Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
• Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience
• Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions
• Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck
• Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON
• Experience with AWS CLI
• Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward
• Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
• Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage GitFlow constructs
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers
• System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months Details: Labor Category: Systems Engineer Position Title: Systems Engineer Position Level: Level 1 - Subject Matter Expert Salary: Up to $260,000.00 per year Core Hours: 9am to 4pm Location: Chantilly VA Mandatory Requirements:
• Expert in Linux operating system usage
• Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck
• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices
• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit
• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo
• Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)
• Experience with Nexus administration
• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Well versed with using version control systems
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a production environment.
• Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and security best practices. Optional Requirements:
• Experience with Elastic tools
• Experience working in the Customer's cloud environments
• Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance
• Experience with Sponsor's release management tools and processes
• AWS certification
• Container-related certification
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification, demonstrating expertise in designing, building and running applications on Kubernetes. B4CORP Company Information B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America's intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client's needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive. B4Corp's dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp's benefits reflect the company's policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp's maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company's cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp's commitment to its employees. Compensation: Outstanding Salaries Retirement: Full Vanguard 401k Plan - Featuring a full scope of investment options - 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee's salary - Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50) Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period) Insurance: Medical - United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options) Dental - United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan Vision - Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week) Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month) Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00) Employee Referral Bonus: Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP Paid Time Off (PTO): Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays) Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval) Tuition and Training: Free CBTNuggets Online Training Account - More than 200 online IT courses on a large variety of topics, including networking, security, virtualization, and the cloud - Cisco, Microsoft, and Google - Virtual Labs Free L inux Academy Online Training Account Internal Tracking -LF-VDE-30 If you would like to complete a detailed B4Corp Employment Application, please do so using this form (You only need to fill out this application once for B4Corp or if you have updates to the information.): . This form will help us find you the best position quicker. B4Corp is an EEO and e-Verify employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin. Please take the time to review and complete these three voluntary identification forms if you choose to do so and email them to .