DevOps Engineer

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team.  

This is a Remote position.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support an innovative Federal Agency that can collaborate with Product owners, developers, cloud engineers and operations support personnel to plan, design, test and deliver DevOps pipelines scripts for cloud systems and infrastructure delivery using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model. 

Responsibilities:

• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment 
• Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks 
• Scripting and maintaining build environments 
• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment 
• Strong AWS cloud services understanding and experience 
• Document, schedule, and executes project software builds. 
• Document SCM Plans, Release and Build Procedures 
• Production-level experience in Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate
• Design, configure, and support software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Git, GitLab) 
• Assist with software deployment through various staged operating environments (e.g., Development, QA, Staging, Production) 
• Scripting and maintaining build environments
• Linux and shell scripting 

Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Bachelors degree in related field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management preferred). 
• 7+ years of software development experience 
• 5+ years of experience in a combination of software development and technical operations support 
• Experience with monolith and micro service architectures 
• Solid understanding of managing both LAMP stack and java service apps 
• Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - compliant software stack (Kubernetes) and Open Container Initiative (OCI) Compliant containers (Docker)
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects from end to end with minimal supervision
• Expert knowledge of the underlying concepts of Branching, Merging, and Archiving software throughout the development lifecycle 
• Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user 
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as source control (GIT preferred), build (Maven), and automation (Jenkins) 
• Understanding of the Agile SDLC and how DevOps plays a role in it 
• Good communication skills
• GovCon experience preferred

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.