DevOps Engineering,

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.
Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.
Research, develop, implement, and maintain DevOps processes and tools to automate the integration and deployment of complex DoD cybersecurity software applications. Maintain deployment of multiple software baselines with custom Virtual Machine (VM) and container configurations development, testing, and deployment activities. Ensure the DevOps environment facilitates designing, implementing, deploying, and executing automated tests, and investigating new technologies to continually improve DevOps processes. Collect, process, and present build, network, security, performance, and other information and metrics to show automation improvements or degradations over time. Balance hybrid cloud distribution between private corporate infrastructure and public clouds.
This position is remote with occasional, scheduled work at our Hanover, MD location.
Ability to perform many duties involving DevOps functions including, but not limited to, authoring and maintaining automation deployment and monitoring scripts, researching, implementing and maintaining Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) tools and processes, automating application deployments, managing virtualized and containerized assets, creating virtual and physical network configurations, servers, communications, and test and developer engineering support.
Must be able to author and maintain scripts in a variety of languages. Work products must be configuration managed.
Analyze real world problems and implement solutions according to corporate guidelines and procedures, DoD DevOps guidance, and industry best practices.
Assures system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
Support the implementation and operation of a fully automated CI-CD pipeline that leverages enterprise container and virtualization platforms
Monitor, maintain, install, and support networked virtual machines, containers and software applications
Assist software developers, integration, and test engineers to best utilize DevOps capabilities
Utilize an enterprise software development ticketing system to plan and track work
Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology from an accredited college or university.
Three years of work experience preferred.
Understanding of commercial DevOps tools and processes
Use scripting languages for automation, administration, data collection and reporting. Configuration manage, version control, and backup various scripts and work products created to execute and maintain the environment.
Prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
Lead small projects to research and/or implement new technologies.
Professionally convey system-wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Jira, Confluence, etc.
Train others to perform similar DevOps and automation tasks. Support a corporate library of knowledge by maintaining and evangelizing content.
Interact with developers to understand software changes that will impact development and testing activities, examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements.

Solving technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
Jenkins Pipelines, Puppet, JFrog Artifactory, Git, Harbor, Kustomize.
Experience with private and hybrid cloud design/operation/monitoring/deployment:
VMware vCenter and ESXi, generally maintained at the most current version.
Knowledge of or ability to learn Ansible to automate deployment and destruction of virtual machine, network, and other virtualized assets in VMware environments.

Ability to design and implement self-service portals for conducting DevOps or IT related activities.
Prior or current experience with Agile development processes.
Special Requirements/Security Clearance
Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U. Citizenship status and a TS/SCI security clearance. Security Clearance requirements will be specified in the Government's Task Order.
The above is intended to describe the general contents of and requirements for the performance of this job.
When extending an offer, CESI also considers other variables such as (but not limited to) work experience, education, training, skill set, internal peer equity, clearance level, and market conditions. Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage

• Disability (Short Term & Long Term)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Education & Training
• Generous Leave Policy (11 Federal Holidays, PTO, Military Leave, Bereavement and Jury Duty)

CESI is committed to principles of inclusion and equal employment opportunity. We foster a non-discriminatory, professional work environment for all our teams. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status.
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