AWS DevOps Engineer

Are you passionate about DevOps and eliminating barriers to productivity? Do you like to solve meaningful problems around system efficiency, complexity and scalability? STR is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us build cutting-edge command and control software.

The Role:

• Work as a member of Agile/SCRUM software teams to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines utilizing Gitlab, Jenkins, or other CI/CD systems.
• Support Amazon Web Services (AWS) toolsets and maintain multiple environments at multiple classification levels.
• Configure AWS environments for continuous application performance and security monitoring and alerting.
• Act as a point person with corporate IT to ensure that infrastructure toolsets are configured, maintained, reliable, and kept up-to-date in compliance with DoD standards.
• Advocate for and educate engineers on DevOps fundamentals while helping to implement solid software development processes.

This position is based in our Woburn, MA office and applicants should expect to work on site to some extent every week.

Who You Are:

• BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Gitlab, Jenkins) and pipeline automation
• Experience with cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and automated provisioning tools (such as Ansible, Chef, TerraForm)
• Organized, detail-oriented, and with an ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Comfortable in a fast-paced operations environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain a Security Clearance

Even Better:

• MS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field
• Information Security Certification (e.g. CISSP, Security+ , etc.)
• Experience in:
  • full web serving stack, including databases, logging, and monitoring
  • project tracking tools like Jira
  • designing, deploying, and monitoring Kubernetes clusters and pod configurations
  • designing, deploying, and monitoring Kafka clusters
  • Docker
  • deploying and maintaining artifact repositories (such as Nexus, Artifactory)
  • deploying and configuring static and dynamic code analysis tools (such as SonarQube, Coverity).
  • leading teams in an Agile/SCRUM software development process
• Active Security Clearance at the Secret or Top Secret (TS) level

STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Palm Bay, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security, trying to understand how to protect our society: from stopping malicious botnet attacks, to understanding cyber vulnerabilities, providing next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare to developing artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.

STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, but you go home at night knowing that you pushed the forefront of technology and made the world a little safer. We recognize that the world is changing, that it is becoming more connected than ever before, making things change faster than before, and reshaping society in the process. We all want to understand this changing world and leave it better for our work.

STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info.

STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at [email protected] and provide your contact info.

Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.