Cloud DevOps Engineering

Noblis is helping FAA manage large and complex telecommunications and information management programs that use state of the art technologies to deliver enterprise infrastructure services essential to the safe and efficient operation of the largest, safest, and most complex aviation system in the world. We are seeking smart, passionate, and motivated people to join our proven team in a challenging and rewarding work environment where you will be actively engaged at the intersection of technology and operations enhancing our nation's aviation system. This is an opportunity for an experienced, driven software solutions architect to join a dynamic team working to implement and manage the FAA's highly-visible System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program as part of the NextGen transformation strategy.
Support the SFDPS engineering team by implementing container builds, writing automation scripts, and operating services in Red Hat-based environments under mentor guidance. Work in Agile teams and follow CI/CD pipelines to enable migration to the FAA cloud platform.
Containerize application components (Docker/Podman) and create reproducible container images.
Maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development/test hosts and follow hardening baselines.
Support CI/CD jobs (Jenkins/GitLab CI/ArgoCD) by creating and updating pipeline scripts.
Contribute to unit and integration testing, and assist with build troubleshooting.
Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
Assist with documentation (runbooks, deployment playbooks).
Bachelor of Science degree and 6 years of relevant professional experience
Hands-on experience with Linux (preferably RHEL) and shell scripting (bash, Python).
Software development experience with Java, Go, Python, or .Net
Some exposure or coursework experience with C or C++programming is a plus
Familiarization with Java build tools and basic debugging techniques
Experience building container images using Docker or Podman.
Comfortable working in Agile teams.
Willingness and aptitude to learn and contribute to code refactoring and containerization of legacy Java/C/C++ components.
Citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years ouf of the last 5 years U.Basic cloud exposure (AWS/Azure/GCP or FedRAMP-authorized cloud).
Coursera/edX or vendor certs in Linux, Docker, or Cloud Fundamentals.
Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, take on some of the nation's toughest challenges, delivering advanced solutions to our customers' most critical missions. We bring together leading scientific, engineering, and management expertise in a culture grounded in objectivity and collaboration, ensuring our work creates lasting impact across federal missions.
We work with a broad range of government agencies in the defense, intelligence, and federal civilian sectors. Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, sex, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, pregnancy/childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran or military status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.
Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked.