Level 1 - Subject Matter Expert
Herndon VA
Posted 2 weeks ago

Labor Category: Software Engineer
Position Title: Applications Developer/Cloud DevOps Engineer
Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $250,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Herndon VA

Description:

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

Cloud DevOps Engineers help promote state-of-the-art IT solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and share lessons learned. This position will focus on enabling container deployments and implementation of serverless architectures within AWS. Additionally, we need our DevOps Engineer to be versatile and be enthusiastic to take on new problems.

The candidate must have detailed experience with AWS and all of its resources (or least its main ones EC2, S3, and RDS), as well as very familiar with Cloud formation to create and maintain AWS resources. The candidate must also have experience with programming in an Object Oriented Programming language, preferably in Ruby, Python, or NodeJS. The candidate must have experience with using the AWS SDK in any of its supported languages: Ruby, Python, Java, NodeJS, etc.

Java experience would be nice, but it is not mandatory. However, this experience will be vital in helping the development teams utilize AWS correctly.

This person must be willing to help in all cases as well as be familiar with architectural best practices. Candiate will need to have experience with Jenkins and building Jenkins Pipelines using Groovy, not just Jenkins Jobs using Bash.

A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 11.5 years’ experience is typical to be considered a SME level. The engineer must have extensive experience working with this Customer.

Details:

Mandatory Requirements:

Object Oriented Programming experience

• Experience with AWS (e.g., CloudFormation, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, and ElasticSearch)

• Experience with relational databases (e.g., RDS, Oracle, Postgres)

• Experience in continuous integration technology (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible)

• Experience with interacting in a Linux environment (ex – Bash scripting)

• Experience with Jenkins and creating Jenkins Pipelines while having and understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices

• BS/BA in Computer Science OR equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experience with Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby

Requires expert or mastery level knowledge of work area, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.

May have deep knowledge of project management. Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects, programs or systems.

Optional Requirements:

Experience with application platforms such as Spring Boot or Angular

• Experience with log analytics tools such as Splunk or ElasticSearch

• Experience working with containers using Docker

• Experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Mesos

• Experience in communicating with users, technical teams, and senior management

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

• Experience with Microservices

• Experience with front end development using Angular 10

• Comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios

• Familiarity with Source code management and integration (ex – GitHub/GitLab)

• Experience in an Agile environment (JIRA, Confluence)

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation:

Outstanding Salaries

Retirement:

Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
– 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
– Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance:

Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus:

Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO):

Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

Tuition and Training:

Free CBTNuggets Online Training Account
– More than 200 online IT courses on a large variety of topics, including networking, security, virtualization, and the cloud
– Cisco, Microsoft, and Google
– Virtual Labs
Free L inux Academy Online Training Account

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