What are the responsibilities and job description for the Configuration Release Engineer position at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions?
Ready for What’s Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. Kratos is looking to add a Configuration Release Engineer to our team in Colorado Springs, CO.
Salary Range: $85,000-$110,000
Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.
Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. EOE, Minorities, Females, Vet, Disabled, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or any other protected class. All qualified job seekers are encouraged to apply. Kratos Defense is committed to America's veterans by providing opportunities for them to continue contributing after service to our nation. We also work to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
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- Primary responsibility is to test, deploy and support tool sets, scripts, software, and services in a satellite communications production environment.
- Liaison with software development team to ensure software designs leverage common architectures and are testable, supportable, recoverable and scalable and satisfy customer service level agreements.
- Test, validate, and accept new solutions, and deploy those solutions to a production environment.
- Generate document artifacts from test and deployment activities, analyze and communicate results, track issues to closure.
- Coordinate and schedule change windows, and support the resulting upgrades, fixes, and software deployment activities. Minimize impact to production environment.
- Respond to unplanned service outages 24/7. Provide SME guidance, perform hands on or remote troubleshooting, document steps taken. Minimize impact to production environment.
- Perform root cause analysis and fixes/work arounds to systemic problems that impact production operations, document and communicate findings.
- Develop procedures and training that enable the team to operate more efficiently and minimize impact to customer services.
- 3 years’ experience with the system administration of linux and windows based operating systems.
- 3 years’ experience scripting, using languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python or equivalent.
- 3 years’ experience with automation tools such as ansible.
- 3 years’ experience with TCP/IP troubleshooting.
- 2 years’ experience developing and/or deploying software, microservices, APIs, RESTful web services in a Docker environment.
- 1 year experience with a version control system like Git Bitbucket
- 1 year experience with troubleshooting complex distributed environments and taking corrective actions to ensure availability
- Familiarity with Cloud Technologies, such as: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Current Secret clearance
- US Citizenship is required
- Experience working and or certification with ITIL, DevOps, and Agile methodologies, CI/CD.
- Experience in the development and management of Service oriented solutions is a plus.
- Experience with satellite communications technologies in an operational environment
Salary Range: $85,000-$110,000
Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.
Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. EOE, Minorities, Females, Vet, Disabled, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or any other protected class. All qualified job seekers are encouraged to apply. Kratos Defense is committed to America's veterans by providing opportunities for them to continue contributing after service to our nation. We also work to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
EEO Is The Law
Disability Accessibility Accommodation
If you require an accommodation to navigate or apply to our careers site, please send your request to HRAccessibility@kratosdefense.com or call 858-964-2916. Any inquires not related to requesting an accommodation will be discarded.
Pay Transparency
The company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice
For applicants in the EU and California residents, please review our privacy notice.
Salary : $85,000 - $110,000
