Software Engineer – DevOps focus
You will be part of a growing team in Newport, RI working at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center that is designing, constructing, and delivering the next generation of undersea warfare Training Systems to the Fleet. Your focus will be on delivery of the Training Systems, helping to solve challenges providing the automation for integration and testing of the hardware, operating system, system configuration and software. Your primary goal will be to provide a robust continuous delivery pipeline to integrate and test engineering changes from the development teams, providing the teams fast and comprehensive feedback. You will also be responsible for providing processes and tools to improve developer experience. We are looking explicitly for candidates who align more with software engineering than operations.
In this role, you will:
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:Refine and simplify 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.Creating solutions to give developers fast feedback on engineering changes.Researching and delivering new and innovative methods for providing continuous delivery solutions.Develop automated test tools to verify build and deployment mechanisms.This position has no on-call requirements Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you will have:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant STEM field.More than two years of experience in a Software Engineer roleProficiency working in Linux environments (RHEL7/CentOS7, RHEL8/CentOS8).Proficiency working with Bash Shell ScriptingProviciency working with PythonProficiency working with AnsibleExperience with at least one compiled language (e.g. C, C++, Rust, Go)Ability to obtain a secret clearance
Additional desired experience and skills:
Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycleGeneral understanding of the build automation processExperience with virtual machine provisioning and configurationStrong 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 learnTime and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.Working knowledge of Make and/or ClearcaseWorking knowledge of GradleWorking knowledge of Puppet/Chef, Nexus/Artifactory, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes, SonarQubeActive secret clearanceWell versed in modern continuous delivery principles and best practicesExperience with virtualization architectures including RedHat KVM, VMWare ESXi/vSphere
If you are interested in supporting and working with our military and sailors and a passionate Serco team- then submit your application now for immediate consideration. It only takes a few minutes and could change your career!
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