Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Automation and Orchestration Engineer

The U.S. Navy’s Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program that provides engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), the largest information technology (IT) network in the world.  This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills. This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments. Primary Responsibilities: Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer SRE Engineering and Integration: Automate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities Develop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks Release Management: Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies Training & Knowledge Transfer Develop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced Required Qualifications BS and 4 to 8 years of hands-on site reliability engineering automation, ideally with federal government; add'l experience may be considered in lieu of degree IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA, GICSP, GSEC, Security CE, CND, SSCP) Experience working in a DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CICD), and Agile environments using code delivery mechanisms, continuous build systems, code repositories, and continuous delivery solutions Secret Clearance Must be a US Citizen Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel). Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.) Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes) Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, or similar frameworks. Good command of Linux/Unix and command line knowledge Experience in application administration, configuration, and integration Familiarity with agile development methodologies Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledge Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.). Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins) Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python Integrating/maintaining w ... (truncated, view full listing at source)