DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Implement continuous delivery best practices within our software development lifecycle.
• Implement and support a continuous integration and continuous delivery model to streamline development, deployment and testing of multiple software baselines.
• Work with systems and software engineers to deploy operating systems and software builds along with supporting the development infrastructure of required tools.
• Partner with engineering teams to automate every stage of the software development life cycle.
• Assist in designing and implementing an infrastructure to support DevOps practices in an on-premises cloud environment, including but not limited to refining and simplifying the process of delivering engineering changes to the Training Systems.
• Recommend and introduce tools to help achieve this goal.
• Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the development workflow and delivery of the Training Systems.
• Identify automation opportunities within configuration management, build, packaging, deployment, and testing.
• Design, implement, alter, and test CI/CD pipelines.
• Build tools to reduce the overhead and streamline building, packaging, deploying, and testing.
• Create solutions to give developers fast feedback on engineering changes.
• Research and deliver new and innovative methods for providing continuous delivery solutions.
• Develop automated test tools to verify build and deployment mechanisms.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant STEM field.
• More than two years of experience in a Software Engineer role.
• Proficiency working in Linux environments (RHEL7/CentOS7, RHEL8/CentOS8).
• Proficiency working with Bash Shell Scripting.
• Proficiency working with Python.
• Proficiency working with Ansible.
• Experience with at least one compiled language (e.g., C, C++, Rust, Go).
• Ability to obtain a secret clearance.

Nice to Have

• Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• General understanding of the build automation process.
• Experience with virtual machine provisioning and configuration.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Self-directed and motivated to learn.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.
• Working knowledge of Make and/or Clearcase.
• Working knowledge of Gradle.
• Working knowledge of Puppet/Chef, Nexus/Artifactory, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes, SonarQube.
• Active secret clearance.
• Well versed in modern continuous delivery principles and best practices.
• Experience with virtualization architectures including RedHat KVM, VMWare ESXi/vSphere.

Benefits & Perks

• Please review Serco benefits at: https://www.serco.com/na/careers/benefits-of-choosing-serco.