DevOps Engineer

Maryland, Columbia FREQUENTIS USA, Inc. From now on

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

Key Tasks

• Designs, develops, and implements automated software deployments, network configurations, and telecom integrations for networking, computing, and our propriety communications equipment.
• Implements hardware and software monitoring, reporting, and upgrade paths.
• Establishes a management system design including conceptual, functional, and physical designs of complex mission critical systems implemented in high availability architectures.
• Provides systems engineering for software and hardware systems, subsystems, modules, and application tools.
• Monitors system performance and implements security measures, troubleshooting, maintenance, and system improvements.
• Creates and reviews technical documentation (e.g., design drawings, design reviews, system layouts, system configuration, deployment procedures/workflows) for internal and external customers.
• Takes ownership of Engineering related deliverables and their technical compliance required by the program.
• Interfaces with other company departments for total project success (e.g., program management, hardware & software development, test engineering, field engineering, system engineering, production).
• May participates in on-site customer deployments, system integration, and customer testing activities.

Key Qualifications

• BS in Information Technology, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience with IT systems and engineering
• 5-9 years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer implementing automated deployments of integrated hardware and software solutions in the area of networking and communications.
• Demonstrates the ability to implement and apply best-practice system engineering concepts and appropriate risk management to solutions.
• Able to learn, select, and integrate new technologies into system solutions.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
• Proficient in RHEL operating system
• Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Perl, Python)
• Proficient in automated deployment tools (Ansible, Puppet)
• Log aggregation and reporting (ELK/Opensearch, Splunk)
• Network analysis tools (Wireshark)
• System monitoring tools (Zabbix, SNMP)
• Data replication and storage (DBRD, NAS/SAN)
• SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
• System security management and intrusion detection tools (IdM, SSL, IPSec/VPN, SELinux, AIDE)
• Experience in routing and networking technologies (knowledge of Cisco iOS a plus)

Our Values

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401 (k) Matching Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance
• Flexible work schedule
• Paid time off

Applicants must be authorized to work full-time in the United States.

"Frequentis stands for safe, open & family-friendly corporate culture, we hire for personality & train skills. People & their values matter to us. That's why I'm not only interested in your skills, but also in your personal passion and commitment."