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DevOps Engineer
Chantilly, VA
Dark Wolf Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a team responsible for developing, integrating, and maintaining the NRO’s Clairvoyant Framework on Unclassified, Secret, and Top-Secret SCI domains, including development, test, and operational environments.
Responsibilities:
- Implementing and maintaining robust, secure pipelines for migrating applications, algorithms, and models across unclassified, secret, and top-secret cloud environments, including hybrid cloud.
- Applying data-centric, robust, modular, and loosely coupled design principles, utilizing Open Systems (OSA) and Microservices Architectures (MSA) to optimize cloud resource use.
- Contributing to and supporting an agile software development environment by implementing configuration management, continuous integration (CI) tools, automation scripts, container technologies, and managing source code and issue tracking systems.
- Delivering technical operations support for the DevOps Pipeline, including infrastructure, security compliance, data integration, and collaborating with teams to transition applications and analytics from test to live operations.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- Experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or related IT systems development, with a focus on DevOps practices or cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms, particularly AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation).
- Proficiency with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation.
- Familiarity with source code management tools (e.g., Git, GitLab, GitHub) and issue tracking systems (e.g., Jira, Bitbucket).
- Understanding of microservices architecture principles, including modularity, loose coupling, and bounded context.
- Ability to work in an Agile development environment, participating in sprint/release planning and backlog grooming.
- US Citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and a successfully completed Counterintelligence Polygraph.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Amazon SC2S and C2S environments.
- Familiarity with the I2SPO Multi-INT Makerspace (M2) or SageMakerSpace.
- Prior experience supporting NRO or other Intelligence Community (IC) missions.
- Experience contributing to or publishing developed source code for Framework Services to common repositories.
- Participation in IC activities to improve and advance DevOps tools and processes.
- Knowledge of specific IC or DoD security standards and directives (e.g., ICD 503, NIST SP 800 series).
This position is located in Chantilly, VA.
The estimated salary range for this position is $170,000.00 - $210,000.00, commensurate on Clearance, technical skillset and overall experience.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
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