DevOps Engineer

GAMA-1 is seeking qualified remote DevOps Engineer candidates to join our team, supporting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’ (NOAA) large-scale project. Configuration Management team provides CM support to ensure stability, consistency, and control of science algorithms deliveries within the organization.
Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Collaborate with development teams and infrastructure team to identify and resolve issues reported from CI/CD pipelines, ensuring applications' optimal performance.
• Create, manage, and deploy containers to ensure efficient, consistent, and scalable application operations across various environments.
• Implement automation tools and frameworks to assist in applications and infrastructure deployments.
• Monitor CM processes and activities to promptly identify and troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain CM documentation, including configuration management plan and best practices.
• Conduct CM training to the stakeholders to present the GitLab, CI/CD and containerization techniques and practices.
• Administers the change control process for software development.
• Responsible for configuration management of requirements, code, and software configurations.
• Evaluates and selects configuration management tools and standards.
• Develop and maintain, as needed, CM processes, plans, policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions and other documents.
• Support and advise end users on approved CM policies and procedures.

Essential Skills / Qualifications

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.
• Experience with SCM tools such as Git, GitLab, ClearCase, etc.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker (preferred) and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of hardware and software configuration management concepts, goals, benefits, and standard strategies to achieve those goals.
• Experience with configuration and baseline identification, change control, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.
• Experience developing and maintaining software configuration management tools to support configuration identification, control, reporting, and delivery of both internally and externally developed software products.
• Experience developing software configuration standards for organizational use.
• Experience with software version control administration.
• Experience with SCM concepts and methodologies.
• In-depth knowledge of branching, merging, and baselining strategies in Git.
• Experience designing and implementing build and deployment procedures used to support product development and use.
• Strong scripting language skills required. Bash, Perl, or Python preferred.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Desired Skills

• Experience building software written in C/C++ or Fortran, preferably in a Linux environment.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with Jenkins and GitLab Runner.
• Experience documenting and providing training on processes, work instructions, etc.
• Teamwork, strong interpersonal skills.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field.