**Secret Clearance is required
**Must be a U.S. Citizen
Title: DevOps Engineer
Locations: Lexington, MA (Hybrid)
Position Type: Contract
Duration: 3+ Years
Start Date: 11/03/2025
End Date: 11/02/2028
Pay Rate: $100-115 W2
Description:
- Builds and maintains the production infrastructure and services for software development.
- Ensures proper security for the infrastructure.
- Troubleshoots production issues.
- Experience with a variety of scripting languages for automating tasks, generating reports, and creating tools (e.g. Go, Java, C++, Python, Perl, Shell).
- Experience with a continuous integration and delivery model of deploying software.
- Possesses automation skills with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack or similar.
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab, etc.).
- Has working knowledge of software development methodologies including code profiling, regression testing, continuous integration and push button deployments.
- Experience with high-availability, high-performance, open source web technologies.
- Automates all infrastructure build out in VMWare, AWS, or Azure environments utilizing Ansible, Packer, and Terraform.
Description:
- Design, implement, and maintain systems architectures, CI/CD automation, and other components of full lifecycle DevSecOps processes which are core to the group's success. In addition to design and implementation of architectures, the candidate shall support day-to-day operations of DevSecOps systems as well as episodic support of demonstrations and other event-based deliverables.
- Technical skills in software development, shell scripting, Cloud/Unix system provisioning/install, CI/CD pipelines, and application deployment and monitoring in a Kubernetes environment are expected.
- Critical soft skills for success are ability to learn new technical skills, collaborate closely with and provide constructive feedback to team members across a range of skill sets and technical areas. The candidate will be required to take ownership of problems and provide solutions.
Required Skills (Must Have):
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Containerization
- Jenkins or a similar automation system
- Nexus or Artifactory
- CI/CD with containers/Cloud technologies
- Automation within the development processes
- Build infrastructure
- GIT
- Java build tools
- Python, Python build tools
- Linux (sysadmin skills)
- VMWare infrastructure
- Security+ certification or actively working towards it
Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):
- Ability to develop in Java
- Release engineering
- Systems integration experience
- Troubleshooting Network and Firewall connectivity
- Experience with cloud provisioning technologies
- Ansible, Salt
- Application hardening/STIG
- Implementing authN/authZ frameworks, and/or custom software stacks
- Experience supporting small teams (3-5 ppl)
