DevOps Engineer, Sr

Job Description

BAE Systems is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to work on a team supporting delivering simple solutions to complex problems for our government customer. Here, you will tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients.
The Engineer is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:

•Automate and optimize service deployments
•Integrate with enterprise authentication services
•Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
•Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives
•Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
•Administer production, staging and development environments
•Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
•Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
•Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools
•Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
•Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
•Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
•Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks
•Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking
•Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health
•Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
•Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability
•Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner
•Aligns to the customer's strategies
•Utilizes the customer's enterprise DevSecOps pipeline
•Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest
•On-call support may be required

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Required skills include:
•8 years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
•3 years of related systems programming experience
•Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana, Nagios)
•Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
•Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
•Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes
•Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
•Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
•Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
•Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
•Strong communication and interpersonal skills
•Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
•Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
•Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
•Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly


Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Preferred skills:
•Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
•Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
•Ability to write and use unit and functional testing



Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $130355 - $221603

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.


About BAE Systems Intelligence & Security
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.

Intelligence & Security (I&S), based in McLean, Virginia, designs and delivers advanced defense, intelligence, and security solutions that support the important missions of our customers. Our pride and dedication shows in everything we do—from intelligence analysis, cyber operations and IT expertise to systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services. Knowing that our work enables the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage and defeat threats inspires us to push ourselves and our technologies to new levels.

Salary : $130,355 - $221,603