DevOps Engineer

KDA Consulting is a Disabled Veteran, Woman-Owned, Certified Disadvantaged Small Business, comprised of a diverse team of professionals driven to tackle the demanding National Defense and Intelligence challenges through IT solutions. We emphasize teamwork and focus on achieving goals to complete deliverables efficiently, on-time, and under budget.

We are currently seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team to support our Government Partner.

Primary Job Duties and Required Work Experience:

·         Implement and manage continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline software development and deployment processes

·         Work closely with development and operations teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and system monitoring.

·         Champion DevOps best practices to improve collaboration, efficiency, and quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

·         Possess expertise in containerization technologies like Docker, scripting languages like Bash and Python, and version control systems like Gi.

Desired Skills:

·         Agile and Scrum Methodologies: Experience working in Agile and Scrum environments, indicating adaptability to iterative development processes.

·         Linux Experience: Proficiency in Linux, particularly with experience in system administration, scripting (e.g., Bash), and common DevOps tools that often run on Linux, would be highly valuable.

·         Splunk, Cribl

Requirements

Job Requirements

• Active TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly U.S. Government Security is required.

• Education and Years of Experience Requirement: candidate must possess a minimum of 11 years' relevant work experience plus a bachelor’s degree -OR- 9 years’ relevant work experience and a master’s degree.

• Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality.

• Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to network and establish professional relationships.

• Ability to prioritize, demonstrated strong organizational skills, and ability to meet or exceed deadlines.

Physical Demands: Position will require frequent sitting, standing, and/or mobility within an office setting. Employee must be able to use hands to complete work at a workstation/computer, be able to reach, type and manipulate with hands, fingers, and arms; lift and/or move up to 20 pounds; talk, see and hear.

Work Environment: Work is performed on client site in a professional office environment with moderate stress and noise levels. Position requires employee to effectively use a computer, potentially for long periods of time, and to accommodate potentially frequent interruptions. Candidate should be both customer-focused and present a team approach to overall work.

Schedule: Business core hours are Monday through Friday, 0930AM -1430PM.

Standard work hours may vary for this position based upon contract requirements. Position will be located onsite at a customer facility in Herndon, VA.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): KDA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, KDA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our hiring team by email hr@kda-consulting.com. For persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or deaf-disabled, KDA will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

EEOC: KDA is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.