Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

DPP is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for an opportunity with our client in the Aerospace and Defense industry.

Work Location:

Onsite in Englewood, CO

Duration:

8 months

Terms:

W2 Contract

Work Authorization:

US Citizen; must hold current/active Secret security clearance

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines that support multiple deployment approaches across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to ensure consistent, reliable environments throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Optimize and standardize deployment workflows, enabling repeatable release processes that accommodate variations in product and customer requirements.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance and reliability, applying advanced diagnostic skills across distributed systems and complex integrations.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to align deployment strategies with architectural goals, security requirements, and operational best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives refining operational tooling and establishing best practice documentation for deployment and release operations.
• Works as part of a larger software development team to rapidly provide operational capabilities to the field.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or related role;
• Higher level relevant degrees may substitute for experience;
• Relevant experience can be considered as a substitute for the required educational qualifications;
• In the absence of a degree, a minimum of 12 years of related experience is required.
• Active/current Secret security clearance.
• Hands-on virtualization development experience, with extensive knowledge designing and deploying software products using RHEL KVM and the VMWare family of products.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or Openshift and related container platform ecosystems.
• Experience establishing virtualization and containerization environments in edge deployments or stand-alone compute systems.
• Demonstrated implementation of microservices and containers.
• Demonstrated experience with developer tools such as GitHub.
• Strong understanding and experience of release engineering, CI and CD pipelines.
• Proven track record of delivering high quality and consistent systems and environments for development teams.
• Ability to rapidly work with minimal supervision on projects.
• Ability to work in collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a related field.
• Experience in the Aerospace and Defense industry, including working in multiple security domains and on air-gapped systems.
• VMWare Certified Professional – VMWare vSphere Foundation Administrator.
• VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support.
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA).
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization.
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Advanced proficiency with Ansible, including developing and maintaining playbooks.
• Experience coordinating release readiness activities.
• Experience implementing and enforcing configuration control of development environments.
• Experience generating process documentation and training engineers on environment configuration and deployment.

Essential Functions:

• Communication with team members and stakeholders.
• Ability to work in an office or hybrid environment.
• Design and manage complex infrastructure solutions, leveraging virtualization, containerization, and orchestration tools to support scalable and secure environments.
• Mentor software and systems engineers and promote best practices in DevOps methodologies.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications and services, fostering a culture of collaboration.
• Travel may be required.

Interested? Learn more: Click the apply button to learn more about this position (#26-01276). DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D